Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writer Richard Bernstein prepared to write his sixth cover story on China. Bernstein speaks Mandarin, studied Chinese culture at Harvard, and has visited the People's Republic. After learning of Mao's death, he said, "I felt a sense of awe as well as a sense of relief. The event the Chinese have been afraid of and have been preparing for has finally occurred. If there is ever going to be a crisis, it will be as a result of this...
...political candidates it should come as something of quick, quick, quick relief to learn that their high-priced campaign ads on TV really pay off. Or so the American Psychological Association convention was told last week. Charles Atkin, a Michigan State University professor who has studied elections in Colorado, Wisconsin and Michigan, noted that more than 60% of the people whom he surveyed claimed that TV ads helped them decide which candidate to vote...
...theory that it could then cut down on the cost of printing so many $1 bills, still has more than half of the deuces on hand. One idea is to eliminate the $1 bill by replacing it with a coin. Then the $2 bill would become a welcome relief from the load of silver people would need every...
...several things for the average taxpayer. It would extend through next year the 1975 tax cut that slightly reduced withholding rates. It would allow each taxpayer and dependent a $35 credit (up from the present $30) to be subtracted directly from taxes owed through 1977. It would give some relief to many retired people by a simplified tax credit system. It would increase the standard income tax deduction this year to as much as $2,400 for single persons and $2,800 for couples...
...film also throws into high melodramatic relief certain recognizable human truths: the shock of sudden loss, the panic of the effort to recoup, the mourning and guilt that blind the protagonist to a multitude of suspicious signs as he seeks expiation and a chance to relive his life. In a sense, the movie offers viewers the opportunity to do the same thing-by going back to a more romantic era of the cinema and the simple, touching pleasures denied the audience by the current antiromantic spirit of the movies...