Word: relief
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Morris Mott, forward for the California Golden Seals and another erudite athlete, is a doctoral candidate in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then there is Mike Marshall, the Dodger relief pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. He retreats to Michigan State every winter to work on his Ph.D. in motor development in children (TIME, Aug. 12). Denver Bronco Quarterback Charley Johnson has a 1971 doctorate in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Johnson, who specialized in the expansion characteristics of plastics, works in the offseason as an engineer and salesman...
...moderate cut in that form is unlikely to satisfy the Democrats. They are already committed to push for a comprehensive tax package of reductions aimed at offering relief to lower-and middle-income families and repeal of corporate tax privileges and various tax shelters that they believe serve no social purpose. Most members of TIME'S Board of Economists fear that combining tax reduction with tax reform would touch off a long, hot debate that would slow enactment of a quickly needed...
...admit that some of their members may have been involved in arms traffic but insist that as an organization, their record is clean. Says Mike Flannery, 72, a national director of Noraid: "We do not have anything to do with arms in this organization. We have a job of relief to do, and we don't become implicated." Not that Flannery, an I.R.A. veteran who fought against the British in the 1920s, would not like to help. "If we had no law and I had the freedom to do it," he says, "I'd ship the whole...
...disease, which may result from a genetic defect, causes red, scaly eruptions-mainly on the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks -and untold misery to its victims. In the U.S. alone, some 5 to 8 million psoriasis sufferers spend an estimated $1 billion a year in their search for relief...
Patent medicines generally are not adequate. Patients whose scaling clears up after long, messy and expensive hospital treatments may find that the disease comes back as soon as they return home. Now genuine relief may be at last in sight. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced last week that they and an Austrian co-worker have combined an ancient drug with modern technology to produce a treatment that can not only clear up psoriasis in a month but help keep it from recurring...