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They breathed life back into a civic tradition of Umuganda, where one day a month, citizens, including the president, gather together to weed their fields, clean their streets, and build
homes
for the poorest among them.
Whereas equities have dividends, bonds have coupons, and
homes
provide rents, gold is solely a play on capital appreciation.
For example, a bill in the state legislature would offset the new federal tax law’s limit on state income- and property-tax deductions – a provision that will hit California hard because it has one of the highest tax rates in the country, and its residents own expensive
homes.
The glamorous settings in which he is now showing Qarantina – a screening at the Museum of Modern Art, for example, and in the private
homes
of American directors and stars – could not be further removed from the violence-riddled context of his daily life.
These children are now suffering a third winter away from their homes, schools, and friends.
In fact, only 30% of the world’s population has legally registered rights to their land and homes, with the poor and politically marginalized especially likely to suffer from insecure tenure.
When such disasters displace people and destroy their homes, properly maintained land records provide the baseline for compensation and reconstruction of shelters, and help affected communities rebuild better.
What is not on the decline, though, is our exposure to risk and the high price that we pay in terms of lost jobs, destroyed or damaged homes, and disruption to education, health services, and transport infrastructure.
It is time, I believe, for people in this region to perceive the state as a tool for the defense of their homes, and thus of a part of themselves.
Despite momentous technological advances, classrooms – unlike workplaces or
homes
– have remained largely unchanged since the nineteenth century.
This quantitative easing (QE) allowed the Fed to drive down long-term interest rates directly, leading to a rise in the stock market and to a recovery in prices of owner-occupied
homes.
Afterwards, many of my relatives, prosperous Indian merchants who had been settled in Myanmar for generations, abandoned
homes
and businesses in order to save their skins as chaos enveloped the city, later renamed Yangon.
When we began the program, only about half of the women we worked with said they felt empowered in their homes; many feared their husbands.
The comprehensive curfews imposed on almost all large Palestinian towns in recent months effectively confine people to their homes, thus bringing the economy to a virtual standstill.
In the US, resources were wasted when shoddy
homes
were built in the middle of the Nevada desert.
But the first priority is not to knock down those
homes
(in an effort to consolidate the housing market); it is to ensure that resources are allocated efficiently in the future.
One example is Bangladesh’s innovations in increasing the sale of solar-power systems for
homes
in rural areas.
As before there were expressions of “deep regret,” a promise of “immediate investigation” and the explanation that dropped leaflets had warned families in the region to leave their
homes.
There are also health concerns over the potential leaching of chemical compounds from PET bottles, as well as from the large reusable polycarbonate containers in which bottlers deliver water to
homes
and offices.
And the signatories of the Peoples’ Declaration for Climate Justice from Pacific Island countries are committed to bringing a case against big polluters for activities resulting in the destruction of their
homes.
Moreover, many banking systems have bigger capital buffers than in the past, enabling them to absorb losses from a correction in home prices; and, in most countries, households’ equity in their
homes
is greater than it was in the US subprime mortgage bubble.
Can the United States still afford a suburban lifestyle, with sprawling
homes
in far-flung communities that require long-distance automobile commutes?
His managed judiciary provides no comfort to ordinary people; and the country’s military installations, submarines, oilrigs, mining shafts, hospitals, and retirement
homes
regularly blow up, collapse, or sink, owing to neglect and zero liability.
Before the authorities could assure the public that the social-media posts were false, tens of thousands of northeastern Indians, feeling threatened, fled their
homes
and jobs in major Indian cities,Social media, by nature, rewards speed and sensationalism, not verification and caution.
The goal of the project was to spark conversation about sustainable design, and to illustrate the surprising ways that nature will be integrated into the cities and
homes
of the future.
Erecting a wall along the 5,525-mile border with Canada would cost almost $50 billion and would cut through an airport runway, an opera house, homes, and businesses that currently straddle the border.
Nurseries and schools are closed while retirement
homes
and hospices spring up everywhere.
In Iran, members of so-called “house churches” (independent assemblies of Christians who meet in private
homes
because of their fear of oppression) are rounded up and imprisoned.
I have visited the huge slums of Iraq and found families living in
homes
with barely a roof to cover them, with infestations of insects everywhere, and with raw sewage seeping under their doors.
From a special university fund, we pledged to rebuild the
homes
of a dozen families.
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