Word: reliefer
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...initiative, summarized in a 20-page booklet, is a collection of proposals aimed squarely at the middle class, offering relief in the areas that Americans say are their greatest domestic concerns: education, home ownership, health care, retirement security. They are variations on many of the programs that were hallmarks of Bill Clinton's presidency. But if there was a chance that any of it would sound fresh, that died the moment Hillary Clinton announced: "It's the American dream, stupid." Maybe that's why the speech, even with this audience, got little more than dutiful applause...
...abundance of cheap money sloshing around the world to act as a bulwark against calamity and push asset prices higher. Financial market conditions today are more treacherous, margins for error are smaller, and even if there is a miraculous resolution of current geopolitical tensions any sigh of relief by investors is likely to be fleeting. The days of making easy money on risky assets are behind...
...earlier, a UNIFIL convoy of armored personnel carriers had inched their way up a heavily cratered coastal road in an attempt to reach Tyre to provide relief supplies to the stranded families of the force's civilian staff. The troops, however, were forced to abandon their APCs halfway into their journey because of Israeli shelling of the road and instead spent the night in bomb shelters...
...long Greek drama came closer to its end last week when the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a 2,400-year-old tombstone and a 6th century B.C. marble relief of women offering gifts to a goddess. For decades, Greece has noisily lobbied for the return of relics--especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works...
...vehicle traveling along the roads at risk. On Friday, 16 residents of the tiny border hamlet of Marwahine, 12 miles from the coast, were killed when an Israeli helicopter rocketed their convoy, destroying two vehicles as they fled for the relative safety of Tyre. The next day, a UNIFIL relief column which was attempting to rescue beleaguered residents of Marwahine and nearby villages came under Israeli shellfire, with 12 155mm rounds exploding nearby. A peacekeeper who was on the convoy tells TIME that body-armored U.N. soldiers threw themselves on top of the villagers to protect them from flying shrapnel...