Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Society lost faith that there were solutions," says Paul Grogan, president of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a source of funds and faith for grass-roots rescue efforts. A poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion shows that 75% of Americans believe the homeless problem will worsen or remain the same. The irony is that the loss of hope has occurred just when hope may be at hand. In city after city, advocates of the homeless can point to programs and policies that are tailor-made, cost effective, time tested. Now if adequate funds are provided, they will know...
Pierce said the CLT proposal is necessary because otherwise legislators will raise taxes uncontrollably and will worsen the state's already large budget deficit. "If [CLT] is defeated, it will be a ratification of all that's gone on for the past years," he said...
...meeting's organizers said they believe that without action by concerned citizens, the situation will worsen...
...managing to worsen his academic record in college, he soon found employment doing reconnaissance for the Marines in Vietnam. Then he began a renewed assault on college. The theoretical character of rocketry frustrated him, but fossils were something he could get his hands on, and he put in a total of seven years pursuing courses in paleontology without earning a degree. He describes himself then as "driven" and says, "I didn't want to seem like just another idiot." Horner went into the family's gravel business, but he continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally...
...closing its border with Iraq because of "concern for the health situation of the arrivals and to make suitable arrangements for their stay in Jordan." Nevertheless, two days after the announcement, the border reopened and thousands of people came pouring in. As the plight of the refugees continued to worsen, an international relief effort picked up steam. In Geneva a United Nations official said 30 to 40 tons of emergency aid, including food, drinking water, blankets and garbage bags, would be flown from Italy to Jordan early this week. The U.S. announced that it would donate $1 million...