Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation of immigrants, people of diverse ethnic backgrounds must have a common bond through which to exchange ideas. How can this be accomplished if there is no common language? Those who shelter the immigrant from learning English by creating a multilingual society are the ones who are creating a xenophobic atmosphere. They allow the immigrant to surround himself with a cocoon of language from which he cannot escape and which others cannot penetrate...
...provide immediate shelter, food and consolation for the refugees who continued to stream out of the afflicted hillside settlements. Late last week army vehicles, Land Rovers and pickup trucks moaned up and down the rain-sodden paths, shuttling evacuees and their possessions to Wum and Nkambe, where doctors, social workers and such conveniences as running water, electricity and telephones awaited...
...Thursday night's 350th dinner was cancelled because of a blockade by divestment activists, the University was left with full meals for 600 on their hands. While President Derek C. Bok and his colleagues dined on pizza Thursday night, Currier and Chives Caterers decided to donate the food to Shelter, Inc. to feed the homeless...
...Several hours later she searched her house, collecting the incriminating evidence. "The talk she heard the night before," said a lawman, "was the straw that broke the camel's back." Deanna's parents were charged with one count each of coke possession. Their daughter was placed in a shelter for abused and abandoned children...
...reform was stirred, typically, not by a three- by-five card handed to him by a Senate aide but by his own firsthand experience. As a bonus baby for the New York Knicks in 1967, his eyes widened as his lawyer described all the ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first read that tax rates could...