Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pedestrians wishing to stroll along the north bank of the Charles River near Harvard this summer will find themselves fenced out because of the construction of a relief sewer extension in that area...
...holding is Jim Bouton, the ex-New York Yankee pitcher who threw curves at the baseball establishment with Ball Four, his 1970 book about drinking, dallying and other big-league peccadilloes. The two are preparing a fall TV series (titled Ball Four) in which Bouton portrays a so-so relief pitcher and Davidson plays a catcher named Rhino. How did a 6-ft. 7-in., 275-lb. ex-football star get a job in a comedy series about baseball? "He came in to audition and said he wanted the part. We didn't have the courage...
Callaghan can probably count on strong popular support for the new policy. Recent polls suggest that as much as 70% of the country backs tax relief in return for stringent pay restraint. Even the Tories approved; Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservatives' shadow Chancellor, admitted that the plan reflected "a greater sense of realism...
Timber men are looking to Congress for relief. If the Monongahela decision is applied nationally, they say, the results would surely include: 1) a 10% drop in production of softwood, 2) the layoff of 130,000 workers, 3) shortages of everything from hardwood railroad ties to toilet paper, and 4) average increases of $2,400 in the cost of wood for a single-family home-enough to hurt the home-building industry, which is finally pulling out of its recession. In addition, the industry and the Forest Service argue that clear-cutting makes good conservation sense. It is little different...
Though anything could happen, the portents are favorable. T.U.C. leaders are well aware that if they take an obdurate stand and force Healey to withdraw all or part of his popular offer of tax relief, they will be blamed. Labor would also be faulted for a further drop in the pound and more inflation...