Word: loitering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pilgrim estimates that "the Pit crowd," histerm for the group of people who loiter outsidethe Harvard Square T entrance, is responsible for60 percent of theft from the Coop. He attributesthis to the high incidence of drug use heperceives among this group. "There are a lot ofkids selling books for drug money," he says...
...13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary to help them stay ahead of the academic pack. Those who do not perform up to par are destined to loiter in Fukuoka's famed street for delinquents, translated to me as "Failures's Avenue" or "Parents' Unhappiness...
...view, doctors and nurses can tell you only so much. The best way to see what crank has done to Billings--and perhaps understand the appeal of a drug made from drain-cleaning crystals--is to spend time with crankers, both active and reformed. A group of them loiter outside the Montana Rescue Mission, a private Christian charity that offers a bed to crash in and, if they choose, a religion-based recovery program, Reality and Christ...
...innovation is the exception. Even in communities that boast a spirit of tolerance, citizens are turning their energies to driving out the homeless. In San Francisco, city planners have designed sleep- proof seats to chase the homeless from bus shelters. Santa Monica's police issue citations to people who loiter in parks after midnight; repeat offenders go to jail. Legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, have outlawed "aggressive panhandling." In Atlanta, where civic leaders want to polish their city in preparation for the 1996 Olympics, new ordinances make it illegal to sleep on park benches, wash motorists' windows or even walk onto...
...Among those who were born here, there are no thoughts of giving up. We will fight before quitting these islands." Russian military men insist that the Kuriles are a protective shield for Russian ports on the Sea of Okhotsk and for the nuclear-armed Soviet ballistic-missile submarines that loiter in the sheltered waters...