Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan on a cold day more than four years ago, the treacherous terrain of the Panjshir Valley has served local rebels as both sanctuary and symbol. The determined Mujahedin guerrillas have been nurtured by grain from its verdant hills, water from its mountain streams and shelter within caves in the shadow of its snow-capped peaks. Above all, the 70-mile-long valley has been the hideout and headquarters of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic 30-year-old Mujahedin leader who has united more than 5,000 squabbling resistance fighters under his shrewd and well-organized...
...fighters, but 25,000, and people to rise up in greater numbers." Nonetheless, the contras can cause trouble for the Sandinistas so long as the U.S. continues to supply covert aid. In Nicaragua's northern Nueva Segovia department, numerous peasants collaborate with the guerrillas, providing food, shelter and information on Sandinista troop movements in the heavily militarized region. While the F.D.N. is unable to occupy settlements for more than a few hours, the contras roamed with relative freedom, despite the presence of thousands of uniformed Sandinista defenders...
Nevertheless, increasing numbers of buyers seem willing to take the risk. The children born during the postwar baby boom are establishing families, and they want shelter. Some 40 million Americans are now 25 to 34, up 70% from 1947. Young first-time buyers accounted for nearly 40% of last year's housing market, compared with just 13.5% in 1981. The newcomers helped push the 1983 housing-start rate to 1.7 million homes, compared with an anemic 1.06 million level in 1982, and thus can claim some credit for last year's vigorous homebuilding turnaround...
Critics of supply-side economics point out that the tax-shelter industry seems to be flourishing. As of late last year, the Internal Revenue Service was examining about 335,000 tax returns for questionable shelter deductions, compared with 285,000 in 1982. Johnson argues, however, that those figures may simply mean that the IRS is searching returns more carefully for shelters. He concedes that the amount of money in tax shelters is growing, but contends that the percentage of new income going into these gimmicks may be declining...
...confiscated as evidence were in fenced-off areas posted with no-trespassing signs. In upholding the warrantless searches, Justice Lewis Powell found that the landowners had "no reasonable expectation of privacy" because "open fields do not provide the setting for those intimate activities that the amendment is intended to shelter from Government interference or surveillance...