Word: reliefer
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...with a sense of genuine relief when PCF-44?s Jim Wasser telephoned me last week with the news that Gardner had ?rung him up out-of-the-blue? to discuss their shared days together in Vietnam. ?It was great? Wasser told me. ?You know he fought bravely in Vietnam. He is still a brother. I miss him. I would like to see him.? He then hesitated and went on. ?But he has developed a strange, negative assessment of Lieutenant Kerry. It shocked me. His memory is dead wrong. He remembers things so differently.? He has some kind of weird...
...This is creepy as hell,” I said aloud, just to hear a voice. I was sorry when nobody told me to be quiet. When I descended again, letting the heels of my shoes clatter in the stairwell to dispel the quiet, I felt both relief and sorrow, as one does when retreating from a sheer but dazzling precipice...
...fare carriers have banded together to oppose a move in Congress to help out the industry's giants, including bankrupt United Airlines. TIME has obtained a copy of a letter from the five airlines to the Bush Administration in which they say that a bill to provide special pension relief to the major carriers (American, Delta and Northwest would be the main beneficiaries, along with United) is "selective subsidization" and "the worst form of intervention that wastes limited public funds and harms consumers." The CEOs of AirTran, America West, Frontier, JetBlue and Spirit airlines argue that the big carriers should...
...pension legislation, which would effectively defer the airlines' pension obligations for years, is considered to have a good chance of passage, and the relief might come just in time for United, which has until April 8 to submit a reorganization plan to a U.S. bankruptcy judge. United has also asked the government to make $1.6 billion in loan guarantees under a provision designed to relieve the aftereffects of Sept. 11. The smaller carriers complain that taxpayers should not be asked to keep financing those airlines' inefficient ways. "What kind of public policy is it," asks Edward Faberman, a Washington lobbyist...
...originally balked at changing work conditions at its contracted factories, a consumer backlash damaged the company's reputation and sales. Humanitarian groups such as Oxfam and Co-op America are now asking big wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics "to live out their faith" by drinking Fair Trade brew. They are joining Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian groups organized by Equal Exchange, a Massachusetts company that sells Fair Trade products to 19,000 parishes...