Shelters have been overwhelmed, leading migrants to set up tent cities.
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It was forced to set up tent on the outskirts of town.
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They've set up tent cities near the bridges, which have become dangerous.
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In Paris and other cities, groups of migrants, often numbering in the hundreds, have set up tent cities or are squatting in unused buildings.
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Tegeltija said that Bosnia's armed forces and health authorities would help set up tent quarantines near the border, probably by the end of the week.
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Tegeltija said that Bosnia's armed forces and health authorities would help set up tent quarantines near the border, probably by the end of the week.
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In addition, Miller has pressed for the federal government to set up tent cities along the border, so that cases can be swiftly resolved — and migrants with non-meritorious claims can be deported.
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Gazans, including Palestinian refugees and their descendants seeking to regain ancestral homes in what is now Israel, have set up tent encampments a few hundred meters (yards) inside the 65-km (40-mile) fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip.
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Tent city of 40,000 in Darfur. A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures. State governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house evacuees, refugees, or soldiers. UNICEF's Supply Division supplies expandable tents for millions of displaced people.
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269 . (Original copyright: 1968, Simon & Schuster.) The Johnstown flood of 1889 established the American Red Cross as the pre-eminent emergency relief organization in the United States. Founder Clara Barton, then 67, came to Johnstown with 50 doctors and nurses and set up tent hospitals as well as temporary "hotels" for the homeless, and stayed on for five months to coordinate relief efforts.McCullough, David (1987), The Johnstown Flood, Second Touchstone Edition.
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In order to shelter homeless, the United States Navy set up tent villages across the island. Military kitchens were also established to provide food. Due to continued rains in the wake of the typhoon, many were unable to get a full meal for Thanksgiving. Two tugboats were torn from their moorings in Apra Harbor and washed ashore during the typhoon. On November 21, insurance payments for losses were expected to exceed $12 million.
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Their legal argument for evictions is best stated by S.B. Avis, a coal company lawyer; "It is like a servant lives at your house. If the servant leaves your employment, if you discharge him, you ask him to get out of the servants' quarters. It is a question of master and servant." The UMW set up tent colonies for the homeless miner families, and soon a mass of idle and angry miners was concentrated in a small area along the Tug Fork River.
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The UMW set up tent camps for miners and their families who had often been evicted without warning. UMW Vice-President Frank Hayes and the well- known labor activist Mary "Mother" Jones even visited the state to pledge their support. Mining companies in the Paint Creek area hired strikebreakers and armed guards to suppress the strike, including 300 agents from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. Striking miners and their families were prohibited from using company bridges and roads, as well as utilities like running water.
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Leaving Dick Worthman to run the roadhouse, Holman pioneered the first mail route from Valdez to Eagle. During the height of the Klondike stampede prospectors set up tent camps along both the Copper and Klutina rivers, but the first cabins were built on a site one half mile west of the Copper. Another camp sprang up at what was called Copper Ferry, where a ferry crossed the river. The area got a boost as a goldfield service center in June 1898, when B. F. Millard brushed a trail from there to the mouth of the Slana River via the foothills of Mt. Drum.
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Shacks, erected by the Bonus Army on the Anacostia flats, burning after being set on fire by the US military (1932) On July 17, 1932, thousands of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., set up tent camps, and demanded immediate payment of bonuses due to them according to the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 (the original act made the bonuses initially due no earlier than 1925 and no later than 1945). Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant, led this "Bonus Army". The Bonus Army was encouraged by an appearance from retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler; as a popular military figure of the time.
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The five-piece group of siblings from Romford were masterminded by their father and manager, Buster Pearson, in the style of the Jackson 5. He was a former recording artist and session musician who had worked with Wilson Pickett and had set up Tent Records Ltd in 1982. Their debut single was released on Tent in 1983 and although it did not chart, it gave them TV exposure and a record deal with RCA Records (with future releases being joint Tent/RCA releases). After two unsuccessful singles in 1984, their chart breakthrough came in 1985 with the release of "All Fall Down" which peaked at No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, where it also reached the Top 20 (#16) on the Hot R&B; Singles chart and the Top 10 (#6) on the Hot Dance/Disco chart.
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