Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bunk at least 100,000 new arrivals at 21 army bases. So far only a few thousand Soviet Jews have moved to the West Bank, but government incentives are luring other Jews there in search of cheaper housing. Last week Absorption Minister Yitzhak Peretz called for the creation of tent cities to help house the 400,000 immigrants expected this year. "In the short run, it's a great problem," admits Peres. "In the long run, it's a great promise...
More than a thousand bargain hunters and curiosity seekers showed up under a bright orange-and-white tent 10 miles outside Reno last week to watch the ultimate strip show at the legendary Mustang Ranch. The Internal Revenue Service put the 330-acre establishment, Nevada's oldest legal bordello, on the auction block when its previous owners failed to pay $13 million in back taxes. Going, going, gone -- for $1.5 million -- was the 104-room hot-sheet palace itself (actually two pink stucco buildings with a guard tower). Also gaveled off, for about $500,000 more, were such appointments...
Jones was another Crimson runner who barely made it out of the medical tent. Since suffering a pelvic stress fracture this summer, Jones has been at rehab more than practice. The senior's performance was the highlight of the Crimson's afternoon, however. Jones finished the 3.1-mile course in 18:19, a minute-and-one-half behind winner Sonia O'Sullivan of team champion Villanova...
...next cot an elderly Sri Lankan woman shakes uncontrollably, her frail body racked by thirst, hunger and the blistering heat. "I've never seen anything like this," says Dr. Khaled Abu-Halimeh of the Jordanian Red Crescent Society, who treats 60 patients a day in the makeshift medical tent. "Without more water, medicine and food, we'll be faced with a disaster...
...India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh, these refugees once worked in Kuwait at jobs the natives disdained: as drivers, waiters and maids. Though never wealthy, they earned good wages and had become accustomed to the air-conditioned placidity of their adopted country. Today they languish in three sprawling, filthy tent cities, called Shaalan One, Two and Three, erected in a sweltering moonscape infested with snakes and scorpions. At least 10 refugees, including two babies, have already died of dehydration and exposure. Says Xavier Emmanuelli, president of the French relief organization Doctors Without Borders: "These people are hostages of the desert...