Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayer said yesterday that Harvard should institute as many as two meatless days a week with the savings to the University going to world food relief. "If we cut down our meat consumption, the effect on our pocketbook, the effect on our heart and the effect on our conscience would all be good," he said...
Yale University has already instituted one meatless day a week at the request of its student body, with the savings designated for food relief...
...front page news. Sports pages, we protest, are reserved for such weighty matters as tabulations of shots-on-goal, comparisons of probable starting pitchers, or analyses of what makes the star athlete tick. When inflation, taxes and homicides weigh too heavily on the reader's mind, sports provide relief...
...stepping in meant a self-fulfillment of the prophecy that Congress would not succeed," said Mishkin, who then added a personal conclusion: "The wisdom and propriety of the court's action is for me a most difficult and fundamental problem. I write at the moment still feeling the relief engendered by Mr. Nixon's resignation and am thus inclined to believe that the court's action was justified. [It was done] however, at the cost of a weak opinion which may prove unfortunate as precedent...
...choice between the Teamsters and the UFW is clear, not because of the methods the two sides use, but because of what each side stands for. The labor struggle in the California fields has been a long and bitter one. The last decade has seen little relief from the violence, corruption and broken promises of the past from all sides. The intensity and duration of the struggle indicates the depth of workers' need for a union, a need that has been apparent at least since the 1930s. But not all unions are alike. The Teamsters are a stand-pat union...