Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million homeless Americans [Dec. 19] are the public's responsibility. The problem cannot be solved simply by providing these people with free food and shelter. We need a federal program that will offer the homeless work, thus giving them hope for the future and a new respect for themselves...
Housing has been universally recognized as a human right and need, yet the overall condition of shelter and basic services continues to deteriorate in most countries. As a result, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 1987 as the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. By focusing attention on the worldwide problem, the U.N. hopes to encourage nations to help their disadvantaged citizens improve their shelter and neighborhoods...
...main goal of hospital officials is to be rid of Bouvia, but they can hardly wheel her out onto the sidewalk and leave her. Several sympathetic individuals have offered her shelter, but she has declined all such overtures, because she wants medical support while she dies; which is to say that she is determined to stay right where she is. The hospital is equally determined. "We will have her out of the hospital," says Riverside County Deputy Counsel William Katzenstein. "I assure you of that...
...rise at six every morning to write, while holding a more than fulltime job as Librarian of Congress. When The Discoverers quotes Samuel Johnson about writing his dictionary, it could well be referring to its own author; he worked "not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction...
...sleeping where he could around Manhattan. A job has eluded him, but, he says, "I'm trying to prove that I can make it on my own." Indeed, he would rather bunk down in a concrete corner of a bus depot than check into any city shelter. "I went to one once, but there was nothing there but bums. I ain't no bum and it will never come to that. I'm a normal guy," Hanshaw says. "I just ain't got a home...