Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juggernaut schedule, which has kept them in the air 240 hours this year. In his half-year in office, the Vice President has flown 80,000 miles to make 375 appearances. The Ford entourage was on the road 28 days in May alone, and the June schedule offers no relief. Last week reporters sent him an only half-facetious memo reading, in its entirety, "Subject: Complete Exhaustion...
...bright spot in the inflation picture is that wholesale farm prices in April fell an average of 3%, promising some long-overdue relief to food shoppers. But even that bit of cheer has worrisome implications. Declining agricultural prices mean less revenue from farm exports at a time when more money is going out of the U.S. to pay for imported petroleum. As a result, the nation's trade balance, which already has slipped back into deficit after showing a surplus for 1973, could go even deeper into...
Garrett also permitted a general rise in commission rates to bring some relief to Wall Street's beleaguered brokers. In exchange he set a firm deadline of April 30, 1975, for scrapping fixed commissions on all trades and substituting negotiated commissions. "We decided," says Garrett, "to stop the uncertainty and fix the timetable." That comment underscores his determination to set in motion reforms that have been stuck in the SEC's pipeline for years. One of the more important is a proposal to flash on a single composite tape the latest prices for securities traded on any exchange...
Bill Lee defeated the Yankees for the seventh time in as many career decisions against New York but needed relief from Diego Segui in the eighth to clinch the victory...
...disembodied J.F.K. quotes, an unexplained girl (the American success?) dreamily stripping and wrapping herself in bunting on a ladder high above the action. But most of it works very effectively. Dallas audiences respond with standing ovations-which may reflect not only enthusiasm for the performance but also a civic relief, the comfort of the elapsed time between then...