Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their agonizing over soaring malpractice-insurance rates, New York doctors had hoped to get relief from the state. They asked for a clear-cut definition of malpractice, a ceiling on awards in suits against physicians, a limit to lawyers' contingency fees that encourage high settlements and the establishment of panels of medical experts to advise juries in malpractice cases. The legislature provided none of these, though it did three weeks ago set up a pool of insurance companies to continue to provide malpractice coverage in New York. Dissatisfied with the new law, the doctors called a slowdown, refusing...
...film company was also afflicted by theft. Scavengers kept stealing everything from nylon line to generators. The social life offered little relief. In the summer the Vineyard draws a large crowd of bankers, lawyers and literary figures; they felt free to ask endless questions on the assumption that the movie folk had a great deal to answer for. Investment bankers who earned $400,000 a year wanted to know how much they could make as extras. Spielberg was continually asked how come he was so young. The producers also dodged questions about the workings of the mechanical shark, whose arrival...
...country that the recession has bottomed out, only 31% of those surveyed now believe that the U.S. runs a risk of a major depression, down from 43% in February. At the same time, the public greeted the end of the war in Southeast Asia with a sense of relief, probably because most people had long expected an eventual Communist victory. And more than four out of five Americans think criticism of the Mayaguez rescue operation was unfair...
...European capitals, where the British results were received on the 31st anniversary of Dday, there was relief over the mercifully decisive end to a debate that had kept the EEC in a state of suspended animation for the past 15 months. As Roy Jenkins observed, D-day marked "Britain's re-entry into Europe . . . Now we are staying...
...McKay; $8.95). By now, Sophia Loren's ascent from the rubble of Naples to the gold of Carlo Ponti should be as familiar as the tale of the princess and the frog. But to Zec, a British journalist, each incident, each phrase, is worthy of a marble bas-relief: " 'Sometimes I felt I wasn't having the baby for Carlo; I was having it for the world,' smiled Sophia." After such reportage, an audience cannot be blamed for doubting even so gifted a performer when she avers that despite her wealth, she works mainly...