Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simplest necessities were sorely missed: thousands were still without water or electricity. Residents from St. Croix, V.I., to Charlotte, N.C., found their businesses blown away, their houses flattened, their jobs gone. Losses were running as high as $3 billion just in South Carolina, where 70,000 people remained homeless and 224,000 were out of work. The state's top industry, tourism, may take years to recover. Timber, its third-ranking income source, took a $1 billion blow, as more than a third of South Carolina's forests fell to Hugo's winds. It may be 18 months before...
Hugo, the most powerful storm to strike the Caribbean this decade, left as many as 50,000 people homeless in Puerto Rico, and some observers have estimated property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
...mauled were other Leeward Islands. Antigua and Barbuda caught only glancing blows, but they were powerful enough to cause $37 million in damage. In St. Kitts and Nevis, more directly in the storm's path, ham-radio operators estimated that 99% of the population of 48,000 was homeless. Damage there was put at $50 million...
Sarah Silbert '91 said that 30 Harvard students are going to the demonstration on a bus chartered by the Second Home, a Roxbury shelter for the homeless. The students will be accompanied by 20 residents of the shelter, she said...
Proceeds from the recycling, contracted to Boston-based Earthworm, Inc., go to local charities and homeless shelters, Fox said. Other University offices have contacted the school to begin setting up their own programs, she said...