Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe named the phenomenon when describing how the nation's best test pilots follow a curious training regimen. Rather than eat right and sleep properly, the fighter jocks stay up all night drinking and rat-racing down desert highways in their sportscars...
...SASC members said the small scale of thisweek's events will not reflect a slackening instudent interest in the divestment issue. "[Thedecision not to sleep outside] was based on theknowledge that in the coming weeks the SASC levelof activity will be increasing," said Jaron R.Bourke...
...before have they seemed so omnipresent. Some attribute the worst of the problem to the wholesale release of patients in the 1960s. Without adequate halfway houses to care for them, the ill ended up on the streets. Others believe homelessness has been aggravated by unemployment, divorce and eviction; people sleep in the parks because they cannot afford the city's high-priced housing: two-bedroom apartments rarely rent for less than $800 a month, after two months' deposit...
...city's moves against the homeless have not gone unchallenged. In 1984 some 30 homeless people marched on Reagan's ranch, and recent weeks have brought several sleep-ins at city hall. "The laws haven't been a deterrent," argues Attorney Willard Hastings, director of the Legal Defense Center, a local nonprofit legal-aid organization that was instrumental in fighting the voting-rights restriction. This month the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the city government to reply to the center's legal challenge to the sleeping ordinance. Churches have offered assistance to the homeless as well, and a few wealthy residents...
...earliest signals that a person's social adjustment is deteriorating is a dramatic change in sleep patterns, he says. Another sure sign of a mental problem is when "things that you used to do for relaxation become a necessary part of the day; you have to drink or you have to smoke...