Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, billions of dollars (not to mention vast reservoirs of human ingenuity) can be wasted turning disfavored forms of income into favored forms. The essential function of the tax-shelter industry was converting ordinary income into capital gains, before the gains break was eliminated in the 1986 tax reform...
...veterans of untold small tremors and countless mock drills, Californians have long been convinced they were psychologically ready for a big quake. Last week that comforting belief was demolished. "I'm scared," confesses Sarah Ford, 43, who with her three-year-old daughter found temporary shelter at an Oakland high school. "I need a stress pill. When I walk, I'm like tipping. I'm looking to see if anything moves...
...director Annaud says, he and screenwriter Brach only placed their animals in very basic survival situations "in which a bear or a man would respond in the same ways." That is to say, by resorting to their common store of instincts: to fight or flee, to seek food, shelter, sex. The difficulties of capturing all this on film, using actors that are willful, dangerous and, of course, nonverbal, requires awesome patience and artifice, both on location and in postproduction. At the level of technique, The Bear is to other films about nature what Star Wars was to science-fiction movies...
Most of the 1000 people housed in the Red Cross shelter at the huge Moscone Convention Center were moved yesterday to the Presidio army base and to a Navy transport ship, allowing time to prepare for the American Society of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgeons' convention Oct. 30, city officials said...
Mayor Agnos disputed the accusations that the city does not normally provide adequate shelter. He said San Francisco already pays for 2900 hotel rooms a night and that the city needs convention and tourist revenue to finance a new $17 million program to create 3000 additional dwellings for the poor within a year...