Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conceptually, a how-to video for the homeless smacks of a Saturday Night Live sketch gone horribly tasteless. Only those fortunate enough to wander into a vcr-equipped shelter will ever view the tape. Moreover, advocates for the homeless argue that the video signals a dangerous complacency in tackling the issues of hunger and poverty. But to her critics Dunlap has one reply: "Get real!" The video, she insists, acknowledges a serious public health issue and aims to save lives...
...suburbanites are ready to circle the lawn mowers is that many of them see the cities' problems seeping into their own community. While the more distant and wealthier suburbs can still claim to be free of graffiti, gangs and drugs, urban squalor is spreading into the less fortunate towns. Wander for only a few minutes from the leafy avenues of Garden City, a New York City suburb, and you find yourself in the run-down, drug-infested apartment blocks of Hempstead. Reported robberies grew by 17% on Long Island last year. They fell by 1.6% in New York City...
...Paul pointed out, when people lose jobs in Japan, they are not allowed to wander around for a year on unemployment and then take a job making half what they used to make. In other words, Japanese and Germans lose jobs too. What they do is they train people to move them up. You have to keep finding new avenues for manufacturing...
...visible authority controls theseproceedings. Cat owners listen for announcementsover the speakers: "Will cats 156 through 162please report to ring three." The four judges worksimultaneously, with a fluid audience that swellsat crucial moments and dwindles between rounds.Spectators wander off to chat with the cat ownersand shop at the tables along the west wall...
...want food and drink--a real Memphis experience--walk along Beale Street after dark. Memphis' "other" music isn't country but blues straight from the Delta. B.B. King's or the Rum Boogie Cafe are good picks, or you can just wander around and listen. You won't be bored...