Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cross-district busing plan was improper because whatever the situation in Detroit itself, the school systems in the surrounding suburbs had not been accused of unlawful segregation. Concluded Burger: "Where the schools of only one district have been affected, there is no constitutional power in the courts to decree relief balancing the racial composition of that district's schools with those of the surrounding districts...
...last great period of local peace. Like every decade, those years deserve their turn at recognition and revival. But those who awoke during the decade know that no Top 40 record, no fashion show or film festival can re-create the time, and they note it with some relief. For the contradictory, interesting, but not very Fabulous '50s generation, Once is enough...
...generalities, the tone and thrust of the President's talk proved that despite his politically successful fling with the easy-money, deficit-spending ways of Keynesian economics, he has returned with some relief to that "oldtime religion," with its emphasis on gradualism, balanced budgets and monetary restraint. Yet the message is not likely to dispel the public's thickening gloom about the economy...
...characters and the problems of occasional monotony. In response to her talkative father's hesitant admission that "there's nothing more to be said," the spirited Hypatia ends the play with a resounding "Thank goodness." This declaration provokes the audience to laugh with gratitude for a pleasurable evening and relief that it has ended at last...
...purchase, which is scheduled to become effective by October, will be the first major long-term investment of swelling Middle Eastern oil dollars in Western Europe, and was welcomed with relief by bankers and governments alike. Europe's banks still face a liquidity squeeze that was triggered in part by the requirement to "recycle" petrodollars, which up to now have gone largely into high-turnover short-term investments. Bonn government officials see such investments as giving the oil-producing countries a stake in the world's major trading nations, thus perhaps assuring less reckless oil-price policies...