Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...typical. In Norfolk, Va., 81% of homeless people are thought to be families with children; in Minneapolis, 76% are single men, according to the 1989 Conference of Mayors Survey. Nationwide, anywhere from one-half to two-thirds are either substance abusers, mentally ill or both. Up to a quarter have been in jail. With such a great range of needs, it was all but impossible to cook up a comprehensive national policy that would fit into a 10-second sound bite...
...million new jobs created since 1979, more than half pay less than $7,000 a year, and many provide no health insurance. One serious illness, and a worker could spiral into poverty and onto the streets. Meanwhile, a 1981 change in welfare laws meant that a quarter of a million families with children lost all their public assistance, and an additional 200,000 had benefits reduced...
Never mind that almost a quarter of Harvard undergraduates are Jewish, or that many students practice some religion other than Christianity or no religion at all. In the euphoria surrounding the Christmas season, many students and staff seem to forget that there are other denominations around...
...leaders began edging toward the R word last week. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan became the first to acknowledge that the economy is shrinking when he told a congressional committee that "a meaningful downturn" had occurred in October and November and the GNP would probably decline for the fourth quarter as a whole. But Greenspan stopped short of calling the downturn a recession, which is officially defined as two straight quarters of a falling GNP. Said he: "We won't know whether it is the beginning of a recession or just some aberration for quite a while...
...park it perpendicular to the curb, even in a parallel-parking zone? Try to imagine a car so simple that a 14-year-old may drive it without a permit, that requires no license plates because it need not be registered, that can be insured at less than a quarter of the rate for regular automobiles, and that is durable and so efficient it can travel 60 miles on one-half to three-quarters of a gallon of diesel fuel...