Word: streamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although students and community activists who work with the homeless praised these projects, they also criticized a series of separate proposals for emergency shelters. They said the plans would provide immediate protection from the cold, but would not help homeless people return to jobs, homes and main-stream society...
...that people could say, "Look, Ninoy's wife may have studied in New York and she may come from a wealthy family, but she can ride in a carabao cart." This was not my idea. We walked in the rice fields, and once we had to cross a stream. It was thigh deep. I looked at that water and thought, Am I supposed to wade in there? So I called to Ninoy, and I was expecting him to help since we had been married only a year. But he called to one of his security men and said, "Carry...
Although its name is Spanish for "Big River," the Rio Grande is often more like a stream as it winds for 1,248 miles along the Texas-Mexico border. Each month thousands of Mexicans slip into the U.S. simply by wading across the river, often without getting their knees...
...additional 195,000 come from the neighboring countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that average $50 a week. Come mid-December, tens of thousands stream out of the camps and head home for the holidays, jamming bus stations, train platforms and airports to spend a month or so with their loved ones...
...South Africa may eventually run short of capital needed to buy out foreign firms. For that reason, British and U.S. companies have an incentive to leave while reasonable deals are still available. Warned an editorial in the Star, Johannesburg's largest daily newspaper: "The present disinvestment stream could become a flood, as foreign companies rush to cash in their chips while the going's good." Pretoria is hoping that Barclays' departure is not the first wave of the flood...