Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end the country's death toll was approaching 300. Some 18,000 people were homeless, and the total damage was estimated at between $50 million and $100 million. With his ministers, Frei mapped out relief and reconstruction programs, ordered an inquiry to determine whether the mining company or government inspectors were guilty of negligence in permitting the miners to live at the base of the El Cobre...
...their message seems to be getting through. A current study by the Finance Ministry concludes that governmental relief is indeed "indispensable" to the industry, and recommends, as a starter, reduction of the 24% special tax. Yet, as last week's demonstration National Defend French Cinema Day proved, the film industry cannot be saved by tax relief alone. Even with the clochards just coming in out of the cold, many of the 5,600 French movie houses were nowhere near filled, despite the fact that they were giving away their seats for free...
...surprisingly, a language so silently eloquent teems with insulting gestures and yowls for legal relief. Indeed, the Italian penal code provides up to six months' imprisonment for "whosoever offends the honor or decorum of a person who is present," a stiffer rap if several persons are present, and up to three years' imprisonment for visual insults tossed at Italy's President, Prime Minister, Senators, armed forces or the Pope...
...Without Flagellation. For the perennial critics of the comics, the new strips like Peanuts should come as a welcome relief. Taking the comics, in their own way, as seriously as Europeans, some Americans have castigated the funnies for offering a distorted, often brutalized view of life. In Love & Death, a brilliant indictment of the medium, Folklorist Gershon Legman writes: "Children are not allowed to fantasy themselves as actually revolting against authority-as actually killing their fathers. A literature frankly offering such fantasies would be outlawed overnight. But in the identifications available in the comic strips-in the character...
...sometimes seems that Americans live by surveys. From the degree of relief a customer should find in one pill as against another to the exact percentage of people who prefer one political candidate to his rival, a fusillade of figures is daily aimed at the U.S. Last week Raymond C. Hagel, president and chairman of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., told the Washington Society of Investment Analysts just how sound some of those figures can be. In a survey conducted last year, hundreds of New Yorkers were shown a list of magazines and asked to name those they read regularly...