Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion by promising simple solutions where none exist. As expected (TIME, Oct. 14), he called on Congress to pass a modest 5% tax surcharge on some individuals and all corporations, and he asked for additional tax credits to stimulate investment and industrial expansion. But there was much less tax relief for the poor than had been expected...
UNEMPLOYMENT will rise to 7% by midsummer, a frightening consensus, unless the Administration moves more decisively. Yet the prevailing view is that action will be taken long before the 7% mark is reached. To battle recession, Ford may have to give more tax relief to lower-income groups and expand the public service employment program beyond the limited scheme announced last week...
...relief of depositors and other bankers, Smith announced that Franklin's 104 branches would be taken over immediately by European-American Bank & Trust Co., a little-known consortium of six major European banks...
Such emergency aid, along with a variety of regular relief and economic-development projects, has made Church World Service by far the most popular and best-funded ($9 million a year) program of the National Council of Churches. This fall C.W.S. is for the first time soliciting gifts from the general public via ads on 20 TV stations and in Reader's Digest...
...trash and human filth. Most of the Indian children are under 12, and their resistance has not yet developed. They are beseiged with impetigo--a skin disease manifesting itself in open sores all over the body. Every blackfly bite that is scratched becomes an oozing sore, attracting more flies. Relief is guaranteed only with the coming cold weather when the flies will...