Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beverly, Mass., July 17, 1985. Faced with mounting community opposition, a North Shore shelter for the homeless withdraws its offer to by an abandoned building in a dilapidated neighborhood. Shelter officials attribute the defeat to "misconceptions and and unfounded fears" on the part of residents about the introduction of a shelter into their residential area...
...more prevalent than Portuguese, and towns bear names such as Blumenau, Frederico Westphalen and Novo Hamburgo. Near the Chilean city of Parral, 300 Germans have set up a closed community called Colonia Dignidad. Protected by a high fence, the colony observes its own laws and has been reported to shelter at least two former ranking Nazis...
...maximum of 50%. Overall, the Treasury Department estimates, the plan would trim 5% from the tax bills of individuals by 1990; the biggest reductions would go to the very poor and the very rich. Reagan would eliminate many of the tax breaks that wealthy persons in particular use to shelter their income. At the same time, he would preserve three deductions that are immensely popular with the middle class and thus vital to the reform plan's chances of success: those for interest paid on primary home mortgages, for gifts to charity and for medical expenses...
...warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor to own radios, and many of those who heard the warnings may have shrugged them off as a false alarm...
With each passing day, those marooned on the islands faced new perils. Virtually all buildings had been leveled, all roads and bridges destroyed; most of the survivors had no shelter, no clothing, no medicine, no food. There was little fresh water, and many were forced to drink a salty brine that had been exposed to the elements and was probably polluted by decomposing bodies. The corpses were ubiquitous. "It was terrible," said Mohammad Taher, who arrived on Urirchar the day after the disaster. "I could not believe what I saw. Bodies were all around. I myself buried at least...