Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rough-hewn and informal with the grandiose. The legislative chamber, in which the 120 Knesset members most four days a week, contains simple beige swivel chairs arranged in concentric half-circles behind long curved desks. The ceiling is high and majestic, but the wall is carved in an abstract relief symbolizing peace; an incomplete circle represents the city of Jerusalem which was still split by barbed wire when this new seat of government was constructed...
Ullman's initial bill embodies most of this advice. He called for a tax cut of $18 billion, with $14 billion in relief for individuals and $4 billion for business. The measure included...
...Democratic program returns 94% of the total tax relief to individuals who earn less than $20,000 a year and 52% to those with an annual income of less than $10,000. Ford, on the other hand, gives 43% of the tax cut to taxpayers who earn more than $20,000 a year and only 15% to those with incomes under $10,000. Republicans on Ways and Means argue that middle-income individuals, pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation, also deserve a tax break, a point that the President has continually emphasized. G.O.P. legislators may try to give them...
...time being, Mujib has retained his entire Cabinet. Most observers believe that he did so primarily for the sake of continuity and that major changes will come later. His toughest action is expected to be aimed at profiteers and hoarders, who have interfered with the flow of relief supplies from abroad. An estimated 30,000 people died of starvation after floods destroyed much of last year's rice and jute crops. The death toll could go much higher if this year's crops should also be ruined. Inflation is virtually out of control; rice has more than doubled...
...RELIEF when Gill returns to the perfunctories of who he married and where they lived and how much they made when they resold the place; and then back to the interesting idiosyncrasies of New Yorker writers and artists. Gill is comfortable with a voice that he has smoothed and polished for 40 years, and there are things that can't be said without a rough edge that he has lost. (It is a tribute to Gill's mastery of New Yorker style that the seams don't show when part of an obituary published in the magazine is sewn into...