Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most investors, a tax shelter is about as tangible as an electronic banking transaction: a piece of paper documenting their part ownership of a shopping mall in the next state or an oil-drilling site half a continent away. But for some 30 investors with a special sense of romance-and risk-the payoff from an unusual Florida operation was the kind they could touch, even fondle: silver ingots the size of paving blocks, gold chains, gold bars, fistfuls of gold and silver coins, a coral-encrusted anchor, a bronze cannon, an emerald ring-all lost at sea 361 years...
Stevens began her day long before breakfast. She stays over every Wednesday night at Renewal House, a shelter in Roxbury for battered women, providing counselling and advocacy for women at the shelter. The work fulfills the MDiv requirement of two years of field education. In addition to her Div School responsibilities, she is director of a Quaker summer work-camp for 15-17 year olds called Tamarack Farm, located near Philadelphia...
Three cheers for Sacramento County, Calif., and its Bannon Street shelter project that helps the poor [March 14]. Finally somebody has come up with an idea that takes some of the burden off the county welfare system...
These developments are slowly helping to raise the standard of living throughout the Caribbean basin, with its exploding population of nearly 200 million, but the price has been high. Each new hotel or factory takes away a bit of jungle, sometimes replacing valuable mangrove, whose matted roots provide shelter and sustenance for aquatic life. Says Puerto Rico's Arsenio Rodriguez Mercado, a scientific adviser to the U.N. Environment Program: "Sewage generated by 30 million people is dumped more or less untreated into the Caribbean." On some islands, hotels discharge wastes into the waters where guests swim. Adding...
...Each time the IRS or Congress develops a method of slowing or halting some objectionable shelter practice," says IRS Commissioner Egger, "promoters and/or investors find some way around it-essentially jumping over the roadblocks. At first, promoters were only stretching the law, now they're openly breaking...