Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stream doctor's task involves more than dredging muck. Surgery for a silty waterway can mean adding rocks, moving boulders or placing trees in strategic places to shelter trout. It often requires rechanneling a creek to increase its flow so that water will once again ripple over rocks to provide enough oxygen. At Boise's River Run development, McIntyre dug pools and meandering bends into an existing brook and added rocks and Douglas fir logs to the riverbank. Now trout spawn in streams that flow between condominium town houses and $100,000 homesites...
...heavy medical bills. The problem is especially poignant in the case of orphans and abandoned children; in Florida's Dade County, one of these youngsters with AIDS is being raised in a county hospital. In New York City, the Roman Catholic archdiocese tried to set up an AIDS shelter in an unused convent on the Upper West Side, but backed off when parishioners refused to send their children to the neighboring parochial school. The privately run AIDS Resource Center in Manhattan managed to find housing for 21 victims in four buildings, and persuaded the city to pick up part...
...seeking shelter under the bankruptcy laws, Robins is following a controversial precedent set three years ago by the Manville Corp., which filed under Chapter 11 as a way of temporarily freezing 16,500 suits on behalf of people who claimed to have contracted cancer and other diseases caused by asbestos that the company produced. Manville, an otherwise healthy Denver firm that sells building materials, kept up business as usual. A month ago it offered to set up a $2.5 billion fund for asbestos victims as part of a plan to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings within a year...
...decision to deny the permit came after more than an hour of public discussion last night among the five members of the zoning appears board before a crowd of nearly 75, onlookers. A hearing lasting five hours was held in June to allow residents and shelter officials to present their cases before the boar...
Zoning board chairman Vincent J. Panico, who voted in favor of the shelter, said "The issue is between Shelter, Inc. and those areas of the city which vigorously denied them access to their neighborhoods...