Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is getting ugly...The wellto-do neighborhoods in the east weren't affected today, but just wait until tomorrow," said the commissioner, who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...Harvard gets to sit back and wait for the rest of the Eastern league to arrive at Blodgett. The team knows that it is going into the Eastern meet as a definite underdog, but it doesn't seem to mind...
...pregnant crack-addicted women is relatively recent, and programs aimed at treating them are scarce. Thomas, a counselor to ex- offenders in Oakland for eleven years, had no model when she began her program in December 1987. But with the dramatic increase of crack-contaminated infants, she did not wait for someone else to show the way. "There was a void in the system," she explains. "People who needed help the most were being ignored." Thomas received her inspiration from the ex-offender mothers she had worked with, who fought to turn their lives around. Her plans received support from...
...their bodies battered but their spirits high, the families while away the hours at the Casa Romero shelter for Central American refugees. They line up for a lunch of rice and beans, served from steaming kettles; they mop the floors and shoot pool; they practice English phrases; and they wait. And wait...
...forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find out if they will be allowed to partake of the American Dream...