Word: squalidity
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...bones, paper, glass and other recyclable items. By selling this refuse to a trash king, the pepenadores can earn more than the daily minimum wage of $6.25. As a consequence, this wretched work has become a hereditary plum; generations of pepenadores have been born and will die in the squalid settlements built on the fringe of the heap. The shanties are often decorated with plastic flowers because, as one trash collector explains, "nothing grows here." The pepenadores consider themselves lucky to have any employment at all. Says a denizen of Sante Fe: "It may not be clean work...
Satisfied that the "war" against the Montonero terrorists had been won, General Videla last year ordered that squalid prisons where thousands of political prisoners were held should be spruced up, and invited the Inter-American Commission to make a firsthand inspection of its human rights performance. As Videla told TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief George Russell last week: "We have nothing to hide...
...pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture. · At $500,000 the mansion was a doubtful bargain, even with 26 rooms, 1.7 acres and a prime location in Long Island's haute summer town of East Hampton. And even with its notorious cachet as Grey Gardens, squalid home of the Ediths Beale, mère et fille, much publicized relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. "My brother told me to drop the price to $225,000 and it would sell," confessed Edie Beale, fille, 60. It did, to buyers just as famous: Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn...
Ludwig has built barracks for ordinary laborers as well as fancier bungalows for the technical and managerial staff. But he cut back substantially on plans for additional housing, especially for the lowest-paid workers. Result: squalid slum towns, inhabited partly by whores and thieves, have sprung up near the sites, and many workers live in unsanitary and unsavory conditions. At first, Ludwig relied entirely on Brazilian contractors to supply laborers, and some of the bosses exploited their men and skimmed off their wages. Now Ludwig has set up safeguards to ensure that the workers receive their full pay, which averages...
Ironically, the long-term effectiveness of the Bible-smuggling operations now seems threatened by scandal in the U.S. Underground Evangelism and Jesus to the Communist World have lately struggled in a bitter and squalid feud run out of their California headquarters. The battle involves a $1.5 million defamation suit rising from charges and countercharges made by Wurmbrand about Bass's personal behavior, and it threatens to spread to questions about Bass's ways of accounting for some of the $8.7 million a year his group raises. The situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend...