Word: reliefer
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...glean some information about Schourek from my teammates, who saw him play earlier in the season. Rumor has it that he doesn’t like to pitch anymore, and he only takes the mound for the occasional relief appearance. I look through some results and find that last season, in seven innings pitched, he stuck out 16 and allowed no runs while recording three saves...
...year ago GAUTAM GOSWAMI was basking in glory. The Indian press had lionized the district magistrate from the eastern state of Bihar for standing up to his political bosses in order to enforce election campaign rules. The sight of an upstanding bureaucrat efficiently coordinating relief to thousands of victims of monsoon floods in a state notorious for crime, corruption and poverty caught TIME's eye: we made him one of our heroes for 2004. But in August, the Bihar State Vigilance Investigation Bureau charged the 39-year-old civil servant and 10 alleged accomplices with embezzling millions of dollars...
...Bush uncharacteristically said the initial relief response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast was not acceptable. Given the past reluctance of the Administration to hold anyone accountable for failure, it only remains to be seen who will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after this tragedy. Buck Rutledge Knoxville, Tennessee...
...counterpart had a far greater impact, which was made apparent in the first quarter, when the junior left the game on the third series. Holding his side in pain, Dawson left the field for a span as the Crimson offense sputtered and the Brown defense breathed a sigh of relief...
...FEMA reforms. But he's gone a much more adventuresome route, one that could well involve revisiting century-old statutes restricting the use of troops at home. To be sure, McClellan indicated that the president is thinking of a lead role for the Department of Defense in disaster relief only when the chaos is of the order of magnitude of a Katrina. But that's still a big new assignment. And McClellan insists that the Pentagon is not overextended. "The military has said otherwise," he told reporters Sunday. Don't be surprised if before too long there's a whole...