Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the pain of poverty has not disappeared, the recent sights in the square indicate that the humiliation has. Begging on the street used to be a last resort. It was a degrading experience to which one would only submit if the need was truly dire...
...neighborhood are in such circumstances. Some are mentally ill, turned out of state institutions and unable to support themselves. Others are just down on their luck. But the fact that some panhandlers are raising money to fly to Hawaii indicates that begging is certainly no longer a last resort...
...Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Arafat loyalists were fighting other opponents of the peace deal with Israel, this time dissidents within Fatah. While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip, it was something new. "All the factions had sworn that they would never resort to violence," said Ziad Abu-Amr, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. "Now taboos have been broken. The glass has been shattered. So we are waiting for another round. Are the conditions of the + first round still present? Yes, and more...
Eliot did not reveal the purpose of his absence in his annual report, but a letter dated January 17, 1901, places him in Bermuda. "This island is the best winter resort I have ever visited... always withdrawn and reposefully," he writes...
...hope this reaches you at whatever resort exists in heaven (or the other place) for former Presidents of the U.S. Not knowing how closely you watch events in the world you left behind, I want to bring you up to date on the consequences of an ideal you so energetically championed: national self- determination. Today it is militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have...