Word: slum
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...said: When you've seen one slum, you've seen them...
...Tears. Although he had no journalistic experience, his breezy enthusiasm impressed WABC executives looking for someone to fill a vacant ethnic slot (he is half Puerto Rican, half Jewish). Rivera wasted little time on one-alarm fire assignments before digging into his own niche as the station's "slum-dope reporter." He made his name with a three-part report on the Drug Crisis in East Harlem, which gave names and faces to drug-abuse statistics with portraits of three heroin addicts. In 1972 he sneaked a camera crew into the Willowbrook State School for the mentally retarded...
...losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate twice as high as, and a standard of living 12% lower than, the rest of Britain. Despite the idyllic beauty of much of Scotland, cities like Glasgow are scarred by ugly slum districts...
...first justification given to me when I inquired about this fee is that Dudley House costs that much to run. I am not affiliated with Dudley house. I am trying to save money this year by living in as close to a slum as I can stand. I do not live in a room with $6,000 curtains nor chandeliers. I get the feeling that what I am in fact paying for is an annoying bureacracy that has nothing better to do then hide a folder from me and think up more ways to sponge money from me. Emmett...
FOLLOWING HIS SEXUAL initiation, Steves passes his early teenage years in a street gang, his later teens in the Navy and his early twenties in a flirtation with the American dream. Going heavily into debt to buy several slum properties, he becomes a slum lord par excellance, carries a brief case, subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, and even runs a whore house on the side. But when the violence and degradation becomes overwhelming, he locks the door to the whore house, leaves everything behind, and heads for the ultimate destination of America's nomadic society: California...