Word: shared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became common for several workers to share a room. Families couldn't afford local rents on a Seaboard wage. Eventually some went on welfare. In short, corporate welfare begot individual welfare...
...years, the community devoted the major portion of its federal and state legacy and a good share of local money to providing improvements to keep the slaughtering plant in our community [for Seaboard and its predecessor]," says Sparks. "In retrospect," he says ruefully, "the money could have been better used...
...Oklahoma legislature agreed to spend $700 million on state roads and bridges. Of that figure, Guymon's and Texas County's share amounted to $37.3 million. That worked out to a per capita highway spending in Texas County of $2,200--or some 10 times what was earmarked for the rest of the state. Needless to say, most of the roadwork benefited Seaboard...
...these two tough New Yorkers to snarl, "Hey, you want a piece of me? Let's take this outside!" These warrior witnesses convince me that there is no good strategic reason for anyone to sit and listen to his character being trashed by committee members with their share of flaws. During one such hearing, the accusers included a plagiarist, an influence peddler, an apologist for organized crime and a criminally negligent motorist. It reminded me of the story of the woman who visits a butcher shop, picks up a chicken and starts prodding and sniffing the bird. The butcher asks...
...they write. "Nor is it a cure." In mid-December, Hazelden/Rosen will be publishing Ritalin: Its Use and Abuse, a guidebook for teenagers. The author, Eileen Beal, writes that Ritalin can be quite helpful, but that there are problems that go with the territory, such as the pressure to share the medicine with classmates...