Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans and where to board the dog (a current favorite is one kennel that advertises: "Our boarders are exclusively handled by European staff"). There is mild pique that plans to visit popular highland resorts near the Mozambique border must now be abandoned ("not really safe, you know "), but some relief that gas rationing has been eased. "The people over there depend on us for jobs, money and food, "says a Highlands polo player, pointing to the sprawling African townships of Highfield and Harare eight miles outside Salisbury. "They know that if they start something, well leave and the country will...
...Henry Kissinger to whom Nixon turned when he could no longer keep his emotions in check. The book's most moving scene describes how Nixon summoned Kissinger to the small Lincoln Sitting Room in the White House living quarters. Nixon had been drinking. To Kissinger's relief, the President said he was going to resign. He was full of self-pity. "Will history treat me more kindly than my contemporaries?" he asked. Then he began sobbing. Trying to be fatherly, Kissinger reminded the President that he would be remembered for his peacemaking...
...appropriate team that usually consists of a doctor, a surgeon and an anaesthetist, as well as nurses or paramedics. By telephone or telegraph, the volunteers are found wherever they happen to be in the world; travel and expense money to the site of the mission is provided by relief agencies, airlines or private donors. Special equipment, including surgical tools, resuscitation apparatus, vaccines and about 30 basic drugs-often contributed by pharmaceutical manufacturers-are packaged in advance and ready...
America is deep into its Age of Porn. The old narrow Puritanism is passing, and few mourn it. But the feeling of relief is mixed with growing unease and doubt: How will the current avalanche of porn change America? Many who oppose censorship now wonder if the mounting taste for porn is a symptom of decay, of corrosive boredom, of withdrawal from social concern for obsessive personal pleasures. Even those who argue that it is not harmful to the user, and that people ought to be free to do what
...five types of steel covered by Ford's order-stainless sheet and strip, bar, plate and alloy tool steel-rose in 1975, and concluded that imports were at least as important a cause of the industry's troubles as any other factor, a prerequisite for relief under the Trade...