Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FRANCISCO--The shutdown of a shelter for earthquake victims to make room for a convention of plastic surgeons has angered some of the displaced and brought an angry defense by Mayor Art Agnos...
...another episode Corky gets a chance, over some parental reservations, to baby-sit for a six-year-old boy. Again credibility is dashed by melodramatic overkill. That night the fire department has to evacuate the house because of a gas leak. When a neighbor driving them to a nearby shelter gets lost, the little boy runs away and winds up at the bottom of a ravine. Corky comes to the rescue, lowering himself on a rope and climbing out with the boy on his back in a climax worthy of The Great Escape...
...comprehensive % attack." West Germany flatly denied that it had reneged on a pledge to shut its doors to new refugees. "There was no such agreement," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Jurgen Chrobog. "We would never accept that German people should stand outside a German embassy with small children without giving shelter and care. The East Germans wanted to build a wall around our embassy. Now they're building a wall around themselves...
...would also violate the no-special-breaks principle. Consequently, Congress can expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Bradley gloomily predicted that "the llama farmers, along with all the other dealmakers and tax-shelter merchants who had shut up shop, will put the OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign back in the window...
...endured surgery on his throat and intestines. When he arrived at the Children's Institute International in Los Angeles six months ago, he weighed only 5 lbs. "He looked like a child assigned a set of skin three times too big," recalls Sheila Anderson, director of the infant's shelter at C.I.I. Crack babies frequently have trouble keeping down their food. Given to spasms, trembling and muscular rigidity, they resist cuddling by arching their backs, an early sign of what some studies suggest may be lasting neurological and emotional disorders. In pediatric intensive-care units around the country, they fill...