Word: shelterer
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...supervision of University officials to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the Greater Boston area. In fact, PBHA has over 30 responsibly run committees, each independently operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years working with the homeless, counselling in an afterschool program, and directing, raising funds for, and counselling in a summer...
...half- measures. But Gorbachev's latest proposals, along with recent declarations by some of his key economic advisers, point to more far-reaching structural changes. Economist Abel Aganbegyan, for example, has advocated letting prices rise to market levels. At present, government subsidies on such items as food, clothing and shelter run to $114 billion a year, straining the government budget and encouraging shortages and inefficiency. Aganbegyan has also raised the possibility of closing "thousands" of unprofitable enterprises...
...riverbank campsite in Le Grand-Bornand, France, an Alpine village near the Swiss border, was crowded with holiday travelers on Bastille Day last week. When a violent summer downpour started, many of the 330 French, Dutch and Belgian vacationers took shelter in their trailers and cars. Then suddenly a tidal wave of water and mud cascaded down the river and engulfed the camp area, burying the vehicles and their trapped inhabitants under a mountain of ooze. The devastation killed 23 campers; eight more are still missing...
Another area of silence in the Constitution: economic rights, the right to a job, the right to shelter, the right to food. The first constitution to address such rights was the Mexican constitution of 1917. Since then, the idea has spread to many 20th century constitutions around the world. But as Rutgers Law Professor Albert Blaustein points out, "civil and political rights are rights of abstinence. They are rights against the state. When you start talking about social and cultural rights, you are asking for rights of action, affirmative rights...
...Liberia, for example -- have separated economic rights from political rights and placed them in different sections. Political rights are justiciable. Economic rights are "aspirational" or "programmatic," which is touching but perhaps no more than that. Aspirational clauses are impossible to enforce unless the government runs the economy. Food, jobs, shelter and other needs of that kind are most acute in countries that can least afford to supply them, however handsomely a constitution is composed. Besides, countries like Liberia and Nigeria may cherish the most articulate aspirations, but as T.S. Eliot wrote, "between the idea and the reality . . . falls the shadow...