Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary Wilbur Cohen recently began a fundamental and potentially far-reaching change in federal policy governing the eligibility of relief recipients. At present, some potential recipients must undergo investigations of need that often prove demeaning. Under Cohen's proposed ruling, eligibility would be established on the basis of the applicant's own declaration. Twenty-seven states already use this controversial practice, usually relying on spot checks to discourage fraudulent declarations. Cohen has not yet issued a formal ruling to make the system nationwide, but he is likely to do so-and that would pose...
...alienated Bolivia's students, who occasionally take to the streets in rock-tossing protests against his regime. In Argentina, General Ongania has escaped severe criticism because his military regime's Draconian measures have managed to arrest the country's economic decline, bringing a collective sigh of relief from Argentinians. But pressures may well mount if he persists in his intention to keep the country under military rule for at least ten years. Peruvian Strongman Velasco has so far won wide popular support by expropriating some American oil interests that Peruvian leftists long have considered...
...self-mockery that save Lowry's protagonists in spite of themselves. When the imagery gets a little too mucky even for Lowry's strong-backed readers to bear, he pushes his always tenuous symbolism gently over the edge, and it tumbles to the bottom with the almost comic relief of self-parody...
...bench is usually an impartial figure who sits above the battle. What happens when a group of judges doff their robes and themselves seek relief in the courts? It does not occur often, but just such a case arose in Michigan this year when the 27 judges of the Third Circuit Court brought a suit against Wayne County. They claimed that the county was illegally denying them enough clerks and probation officers to handle the heavy traffic in their circuit, which includes Detroit...
...convincing victory came as a welcome relief after games against tough opponents from Springfield and Boston College. In the Springfield game, which Harvard lost, 110-98, the Yardlings were led offensively by Bozek and Newkirk, who scored 26 and 21 points respectively...