Word: waking
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Originally designed in the wake of the Depression as a way station for the temporarily unemployed and the working poor, public housing projects are nowadays looked upon as permanent homes for a growing number of very low-income people, most of whom are black, Hispanic or elderly. Nearly 10% of Boston's population lives in public housing. In New York there are 175,000 families on the waiting list. An increase in the number of urban homeless threatens to pressure the system even further. The need for improved programs for funding and managing low-income housing is critical...
...coffee. Without understanding very much of what is said, the family enjoys the conversation of the guests, who go to bed singing and wake up holding their heads. Gray, brown and glum are the colors of the city, but the citizens are certainly more cheerful than the apartment projects in which many of them reside...
...University will step up security precautions in the Yard, in the wake of the alleged rape last month of a female freshman in her dorm room, University officials said yesterday...
ETHYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...
...really here to stay," says Lawyer Paul Boateng, 32, who was an unsuccessful Labor candidate in Britain's last general election. "We regard black people as immigrants who are transients, or potentially transients. White society wants to believe it's all a bad dream-that they will wake up one morning and all the blacks will be gone. Well, it's not going to happen...