Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they? "Since we opened in April," says Patricia Flannery, director of a Milwaukee shelter, one of a thousand in the U.S., "we have had only two classic bums." The tribe of the homeless has changed in character as it has grown. Among them now are displaced families, unable to find jobs or afford housing, or both. There are more women and many more young people: in San Francisco's seven public shelters, the median age is 35. A great many are illiterate, but surveys in New York City and San Francisco found about the same proportion of college graduates...
...Wall Street firms are accused of a huge tax-shelter fraud...
...face any criminal liability, the Internal Revenue Service could force them to cough up back taxes. The investors, who have already lost some of their principal, could owe the IRS as much as $65 million, or half of the $130 million they thought was protected in a tax shelter...
...edges closer to danger when he begins to probe Hal's insecurities as an older, but equal friend might. But he penetrates the boy's shallow self-esteem too easily, and the frightened Hat runs for shelter behind the person of the superior white master. Sam refuses to accept the yoke of servility. As the tension peaks, Hal spits in Sam's face. The expressions of each of the characters fires the climax without a single line being uttered: pained horror on Willie's face, bittersweet remorse for Hal, and disappointment and remarkable self-control in Sam. "A long time...
Every so often, sniper fire from the neighboring Shi'ite Muslim slums would ring out, sending the searchers scurrying for shelter. Then, two days after the blast, came terrifying news. A rumor spread that three vehicles reportedly laden with high explosives were cruising the neighborhood. The Marines were immediately placed on "Condition One," the highest state of alert. Huge amphibious personnel carriers blocked off the roads leading to the base, while the highway curving past the airport was barricaded with boulders of concrete. Several hours later, without explanation, the alert was downgraded...