Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition, sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects, asks students to design a 12-family apartment complex with several common areas and a playground which would fit a real site in Roxbury. The contest is part of "The Search for Shelter," a nationwide project sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. Twenty to 30 similar competitions are being held simultaneously in cities nationwide...
...Stevick family of "Port Oriskany," an industrial city in western New York State, the decade is their introduction to the Age of Anxiety. The H-bomb, the Korean War and McCarthyism affect different Stevicks in different ways. Father Lyle, bookish owner of a secondhand furniture store, builds a bomb shelter in his backyard. Mother Hannah worries that this means they will never move from the sliding neighborhood, and Son Warren, wounded at Imjin, returns home to join the nuclear-disarmament movement...
...evidence that China's seesaw struggle between doctrinaire Communist hard-liners and pragmatic reformists had taken yet another swing. In recent months, the reformists had been gaining greater control over the economy. Now, however, the ideologues have apparently persuaded Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping that the party cannot afford to shelter those who snipe at its authority. Though Wu was the only intellectual whose departure has been confirmed, as many as four other liberal theoreticians and journalists have reportedly been asked to quit the party...
...loan or a refinanced mortgage during 1987 will need to fill out a two-page Form 8598, which comes with instructions that are twice as long as the form (estimated fill-out time, according to the IRS: 84 minutes). Some 15 million taxpayers must file Form 8582, detailing tax-shelter losses (72 minutes of work, says the IRS). Finally, for 5 million Americans still eligible for Individual Retirement Account deductions, Form 8606 will show how much of this year's contributions are deductible (20 minutes...
...church, so often a source of strength and shelter in the black and Hispanic communities, AIDS is a prickly subject. Both the black churches and the Roman Catholic Church have traditionally been bastions of conservative values on sexual and social matters, and the idea of preaching the use of condoms and clean needles is difficult for many clergymen. In the Hispanic community, moreover, where the cult of machismo still reigns, men regard even the discussion of condoms as a diminishment of manhood...