Word: squalorous
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...miles traveling all over the place consulting for McKinsey. (I could get a free ticket to Tahiti every winter!) The decision is driving me nuts. I can't eat or sleep, and I haven't had any time for my roommates, who are expecting lives of retail and/or artistic squalor...
...example, that humans | share with God the right to determine who will and will not be born. He also lectures against much that the secular world deems inevitable: the abysmal inequalities between the wealthy and the wretched of the earth, the sufferings of those condemned to lives of squalor, poverty and oppression. "He really has a will and a determination to help humanity through spirituality," says the Dalai Lama. "That is marvelous. That is good. I know how difficult it is for leaders on these issues...
...system skyrocketed from 8,000 to 36,000. The public faces of this catastrophe appeared in 1993, when a toddler named Joseph Wallace was returned from foster care to his mother, who hanged him with an electrical cord; and again last February, when 19 children were discovered living in squalor in a North Keystone Avenue apartment...
...visit to Alma-Ata and conversations with several of those who knew him as a boy reveal a quite different picture. He writes, for example, of living in squalor with his mother in a filthy communal apartment where he had to endure the indignities of a communal toilet ("it smelled bad"). Yet the two-story house was, at the time, one of the best in the city, constructed during the 1930s for elite Russian workers. "Zhirinovsky complains there was no hot water, but it was a rare house in Alma-Ata that had hot water then," recalls Vladimir Rerikh...
...this past winter there came a defining moment in the fight over the true cause of America's moral breakdown. It was the day police in Chicago arrived at a small apartment, opened the door and faced 19 children living in a squalor so wretched that one child pleaded to a female officer, "Will you be my mommy? I want to go home with...