Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says: "People with no shelter need to be assured of a coherent, consistent housing policy on which they can rely." One thing she will scrutinize: highway building that cuts through urban areas and destroys neighborhoods-or, as she puts it dramatically, projects that have "opened the main artery to the city's life...
...REGULATING BUSINESS: "We rely on market incentives to bring us food, shelter and clothing, but abjure the use of incentives when it comes to producing clean air, occupational safety and improvements in urban transportation. We segregate our approaches to social organization into two watertight compartments−command-and-control techniques for public intervention and economic incentives for the private economy. Yet there is a spectrum of alternatives between the two extremes waiting to be created through the public use of private incentives...
...people's lives away from professionals in large businesses, and to assume that responsibility themselves. But the authors are realistic--they admit that most people are afraid to face the prospect of building a house on their own. As Cole says, "They cannot take the first step toward their shelter without thinking they need an architect, an engineer, and a contractor...
...tramped up Johns Brook Valley in the rain, our way lit by leafy yellows and oranges where only greens had shown a few weeks before. After four miles we found shelter and set up camp to wait for the morning and for the downpour to stop...
...didn't. We spent a long day waiting, the water pouring off the shelter roof making a little moat around us. We sat in the cold and damp with cold, sopping feet, watching the usually docile river before us swell and grow violent and more brown toward afternoon. Some serious books had crept into our packs since August and these occupied our attentions for a while; an attempt at playing Philosophers' Camp soon bogged down in an absured debate on symmetry. We cheered each other with thoughts of rainbows stretching over the mountains, but as the afternoon wore...