Word: transients
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...national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising...
Bonnie, wavering between teaching English and physical therapy, is happy working at the store. Taking advantage of a break in the rush of customers, she slips outside to light up. Exhaling slowly, the smoke runs out in a steady stream, casting transient patterns into the dark air. She flicks the cigarette onto the pavement, momentarily contemplative. "Treat Store 24 with respect," Bonnie concludes seriously, "we're people too. I'm not in college, I'm working but that's not my fault...
Newspapers are transient, but books about newspapers are more permanent, if sometimes forgettable...
...found myself trapped as a member of the White House press corps. The facts simply didn't seem to matter anymore; the public cared more about myths and personalities. I didn't get my satisfaction from the political process the way others seemed to. The results were too transient, or too hard to measure, or, if they were measureable, too hard to live with. The political system and the media had become disconnected from the daily realities that should have guided them. Unwilling to give up journalism entirely, but determined not to go on succeeding at the wrong things...
...city that is home to Haitian immigrants, proud Irish Catholics, transient academics and aging Brahmins, Cambridge has long been renowned for both its socioeconomic and racial diversity...