Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regardless of the University's motives, this year's bid to build some low-income homes is a far cry from Harvard's putting up metal grates to prevent the homeless from taking shelter on Leverett House heat vents last year. Of course the St. Paul's lot is still just a lot. Harvard's plan to build mixed-income housing is still just a plan. But at a time when Harvard has trouble housing its own students and faculty, the University does seem to have had a change of heart...
...capitalize on an uneasiness among some party members that setting up stock exchanges is not what socialism should be about. So if Zhao Ziyang is unable to take new measures to maintain the momentum of the reform program, it could be undermined by wary supporters and beneficiaries taking shelter for fear of political counter-attacks...
...Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women. The weather was even more severe in other regions. The town of Mouthe, in the eastern Jura mountain area, was caught in a record -27 degrees, while the winegrowing Burgundy region in the southwest posted -7 degrees. The Mediterranean port of Marseilles...
...have to understand that China is 30 to 40 percent illiterate. For the most part, the peasants have nothing to say," Yu says. "They are concerned only with food and shelter for their families. But the students are a different story. They believe in the power of the people to control themselves. Students know we can go faster, do more. They know we should have more freedom...
...travellers marched through the mud to the Twin River Community Center, which doubled as an emergency shelter, others searched frantically for loved ones...