Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cities like New York, such families account for less than 10% of the homeless population, a tiny proportion compared with the homeless who are drug addicts, ex-convicts, alcoholics, single mothers, mostly black and Hispanic. Homeless advocates admit to a well-intentioned whitewash: in their search for support and sympathy, they conspired to uphold the sanitized image of the deserving poor, in fear that if the more complex truth were known, the public would blame the victims and walk away...
...city's Coalition for the Homeless. Even Washington's most ebullient convert to the cause -- Housing Secretary Jack Kemp -- is full of ideas but inevitably short of funds. His latest initiative, Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere, would promote home ownership for low- income tenants and support local nonprofit groups. But its total funding is only $750 million next year. The 1987 McKinney Act allotted $596 million this year to states and cities for homeless programs. But even that amount pales next to what the cities are spending. New York City's human-resources administration will spend $146.4 million...
...from army headquarters, a crowd chanted, "To the wall!" -- meaning that the rebels should be lined up against a wall and shot. While there was no guarantee that a military minority would not try again to overthrow Argentina's fragile democracy, Menem had reason to be cheered by the support his actions had elicited from both his countrymen and his allies...
Tribe was one of 11 nationally known law professors, including conservatives as well as liberals, who wrote and signed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Democrats' petition. Another co-signer, William Van Alstyne of Duke Law School, challenges the argument that there have been at least 130 acts of war that lacked congressional approval. "The number is widely inflated," he says. "A lot of them don't count, since they were for limited circumstances and for short periods of time." In his view, the fact that the congressional war-power clause has sometimes been ignored does not render...
...potential for war in the Persian Gulf has heightened, the debate about U.S. policy has come to hinge largely on two questions. Can sanctions really cripple Iraq? And even if they can, will that be enough to persuade Saddam to leave Kuwait? Those questions are dissolving the once solid support for the Bush policy along partisan lines as Democrats in Congress have begun to insist, loudly, that the embargo must be given time. Says Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes: "The cost of a year of waiting is nothing compared with the cost of a week...