Word: relief
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...remains largely unabated. At the same tune, many people in the world's poorest nations were on the brink of starvation, and an inevitable twinge of conscience accompanied the realization that so little here equals so much there. Boston-based Oxfam-America, an organization devoted to worldwide famine relief, sponsored a recent day-long nationwide fast; the money that would otherwise have been spent on food will provide emergency aid and self-help agricultural programs to needy countries. A number of religious leaders have advocated that such campaigns become a regular feature of the national scene...
Ford and his advisers recognize, however, that they have a brutal problem: if the recession continues longer than now expected, they must choose the point at which the terrible costs of a continued downward spiral outweigh the benefits of tempering inflation and dictate some new stimulation (probably tax relief rather than more spending). But that point, in their view, has not come yet, and for a while longer, recession will continue to alter the lives and outlooks of millions of Americans...
Mayer's original proposal included a provision for channeling the savings from meatless days into a program for world food relief. But the Food Services staff is skeptical about the amount of money that would be saved, citing the rising cost of fish and meat substitutes. "We would still have to provide a menu acceptable to our customers, the students," says Benjamin H. Walcott '63, assistant to the director of the Food Services. "And it might cost more to keep customer satisfaction...
Harvard and Yale students will solicit funds for famine relief in Bangladesh at today's football game...
...that the oil producers are willing to do so. The Saudi and Iranian governments have talked of shaving the price a bit, but the most optimistic estimate of how much they might cut is 10%. A reduction of that size would not give the oil importers any significant financial relief; some bankers even think that it would do more harm than good because it could discourage conservation and development of alternate sources of energy such as nuclear power. In any case, there is no certainty of even a small oil price cut. The outlook is for a continued flood...