Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hard to imagine what the owners of Cleveland's abandoned 76-room TraveLodge motel must have thought when Sister Loretta and Sister Donna announced that they wanted to buy what they called a "notorious cathouse." "Sister Donna and I had about $1.98 between us," recalls Sister Loretta. But the two nuns of the Sisters of St. Joseph had other assets, acquired during years of working to help the poor against heavy odds, that they leveraged into a remarkable deal. They managed to raise the $270,000 purchase price from banks, churches, government organizations and James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation -- plus...
...spring the Washington-based Christmas in April program coordinates thousands of volunteers in 50 cities and towns from Vermont to California in renovating more than a thousand homes that are near collapse. Better to rebuild old dwellings, they figure, than to build new homeless shelters. In one day of hard work the 1,000 Hartsville volunteers used 400 gal. of paint, 800 lbs. of nails, 7,000 ft. of lumber, 5,000 squares of shingles and 200 bags of cement, all paid for by local donations with an enviable provision: if they fell short, Sonoco Products Co., a plastics-packaging...
...hard job then, it is all but impossible now. Two weeks ago, CBS confirmed that it was shutting down its Chicago bureau, leaving a single reporter to handle the entire region from an office at the network's local affiliate. ABC is cutting its Chicago office from eight people to two by the end of the year. Only NBC's bureau is remaining intact -- with one correspondent, down from five...
...most important service that Street Beat offers is friendly and helpful contact beyond the hard streets of the Bronx. "We provide some dignity and respect," says Zayas. "It is sometimes all they get." Alice finishes eating her cheese-and-bologna sandwich and gets ready to head back outside. "Street Beat is good," she says. "No one else helps. If they didn't help, these kids would be dead...
...biological weapons, inspection of his nuclear facilities to ensure that he is not building a bomb. Washington's position is that these measures could be enforced through a treaty. But, notes a senior British diplomat, "that is a hell of a difficult proposition." Such compromises would be extremely hard to win from Saddam through any means but a military defeat...