Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different reasons. The day after the NIOC manager delivered his tribute to his revolution-minded employees, an oil truck burrowed through a fierce blizzard on the Zagros mountain road from Khuzestan to Tehran. At the mountain hamlet of Zalian, the driver came to a stop. Inside a shelter, he performed the ritual Muslim ablutions. Then, barefoot, the worshiper stepped onto a spotless linoleum platform and began his prayers. Afterward, he explained that he was willing to brave the storm to get badly needed heating oil to Tehran-but not out of any love for the new civilian government. Said...
...relatively small size of the ETA organization is misleading. It can probably call on no more than 300 men for terrorist activity at any time; another 300 provide intelligence, cover and shelter. But as Carlos Garaicoechea, president of the moderate Basque Nationalist Party says, "You cannot minimize the strength of ETA." Its resources include an estimated $3.5 million stolen from banks and factory payroll offices last year, as well as uncalculated amounts of revolutionary taxes" exacted from frightened Basque businessmen...
Nationally, the steepest rises have come in life's necessities: food, clothing, shelter, transportation. Since poor people have less money to start with, they have been squeezed harder than the mad-as-hell middle class and affluent people. In Atlanta, however, housing is an exception. Overbuilding in recent years has held prices down. A three-bedroom house at $54,000 is still far beyond the reach of someone earning even twice as much as $6,191 a year, which is the federally set "poverty level" for a nonfarm family of four. But the average price of a house...
Searching for a volunteer program where he could contribute something to someone less fortunate than himself, Julian discovered the Shelter program at the Boston City Hospital...
Mack will continue with the Shelter program, but now feels that he can swim, work, and still keep up with his academic commitments...