Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with passengers who are the devastated victims of concentration camps. The familiarity of the scene, the desolation of the faces, is awful. Yet Lelouch challenges our usual response by having a radio play Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade in the background. The song throws the scene into starker relief. The passengers are revealed not as victims but as survivors being ushered into the postwar world...
...fits and starts, and fending off more than 100 often spurious amendments, the Senate last week approved the largest tax cut in U.S. history. Coupled with a historic repeal of the 49-year-old oil-depletion allowance for all but the smallest independent oil producers, the $33 billion tax-relief bill must now be compromised with a similar, although smaller $21.3 billion cut approved by the House. Under heavy pressure from the White House to act speedily to spur the nation's depressed economy, congressional leaders hope to present President Ford with a final tax package this week...
Much of the Senate's final maneuvering on the tax bill was chaotic, as various Senators sought to push their own particular ideas on who in U.S. society needs the most tax relief. The first big fight was over the 22% oil-depletion allowance, which permits the nation's oil companies to avoid some $2.5 billion in tax obligations. The allowance has been an emotionally charged symbol of tax loopholes that has often blocked serious tax reform...
...kilometers from Phu Lap sat on straw mats around a single, thick red temple candle. A small kettle sat atop a tiny clump of burning sticks, boiling water for tea. But they had had no food all day and were still 25 kilometers away from sketchy and still unorganized relief efforts in Danang...
...least 100 people have been reported killed in the crush at the precipitous Hai Van pass. A student and a policeman got into an argument and the student went over the edge, reported a New Zealand relief worker who interviewed refugees. One truck carrying at least 30 people was squeezed off the road and toppled over the precipice, which drops 1,000 ft. in some places...