Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pact really is signed and ratified, the nation can only heave a sigh of relief. Peace seems to have been won essentially by the coal operators caving in to the union's insistence on wage and benefit increases roughly equal to the 39% over three years that 1.4 million steelworkers won last April, plus a long list of costly noneconomic demands. Even so, those demands are better met without a strike than after a walkout that could have crippled the economy...
...drought struck again, the Sahel could probably count on foreign help similar to this year's 34-nation relief operation, which delivered 560,000 tons of food-one-third of it from the U.S. What is doubtful, however, is whether an emergency aid effort could rescue the tens of millions of potential starvation victims in case of disastrous harvests in India, China or another heavily populated country. There is probably not enough elasticity in the world food production and distribution systems to do that now, despite the impressive gains that agriculture has made in the past quarter-century...
...said if funds saved through meatless days could be channeled into food relief by Yale, that there was no reason why it wouldn't work here. But "you cannot impose that kind of morality" on students unless it is clear that they are in full support of the program, he said...
...suggested that all Americans conform to a "two-meatless-days-a-week" schedule. Mayer also criticized the progress of the World Food Conference in Rome, saying the United States should put pressure on the Soviet Union and the "new rich" OPEC countries to contribute major help to world food relief...
COLUMBIA-DARTMOUTH--One of the official correspondences I received from Columbia says that the Lions are "crippled with injuries" this week. Can you imagine a "crippled" Lion team? Dartmouth gets a relief from the rigors of losing close ballgames. Dartmouth 21, Columbia...