Word: redresses
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...working man, this has left him impatient for more-and newly aware of the staggering inequities of Italian life. The rich can dodge taxes, the wheeler-dealers can buy their way with graft. The little man is frustrated at every turn by a monstrous bureaucracy that seldom offers him redress from injustice...
Outwardly, the students were protesting against government repression and demanding redress for a growing list of grievances, particularly against the heavyhanded riot cops. "In actuality," declared a student leader, "we are testing the structure of the country. We want the people to see what happens when the government is criticized. We want to awaken the need for change...
...diplomatic efforts fail, Israeli retaliation seems inevitable. Israel has often mounted punitive raids to redress alleged Arab wrongdoing. Air Algerie flights call regularly at Cairo, which is not far from Israeli airspace. It would be a relatively simple matter for Israeli fighter-interceptors to force one to land at Tel Aviv for use as a bargaining weapon...
...France. Though many Frenchmen recognize that his remoteness has been an effective diplomatic ploy, they worry that he may lack the capacity for compassion that a Premier in France should have at present. After all, his main duty will be to direct a reform program whose goal is to redress potentially explosive grievances in French society. Two of the major groups with which he must deal, the students and workers, are in no mood to accept highhanded treatment from the government. Still, Couve is a man of such undisputed talent and dedication that he may be able even to overcome...
...review the trials, many of which were rigged, of some 40,000 former prisoners, or to restore to good grace by any official act about 100,000 people who lost their party membership, jobs, pensions and other privileges because of political acts or "unreliable opinions." Such redress as there has been has come from ordinary citizens trying to do something for the victims. Committees set up in factories, offices and clubs have got clerical jobs for lawyers who had been forced by Novotný to work in mines, have made taxi drivers out of students who, as punishment, had been...