Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commitment to put a windfall tax bill on the President's desk by Oct. 1. The White House let it be known that it was willing to compromise. The $146 billion in revenues anticipated from the tax would not all have to go to mass transportation or to relief for low-income groups, as originally planned. Some of the money, suggested the White House, could be shifted to measures that would encourage conservation, or even to cutting Social Security taxes. "Popular support for the tax simply is not being translated into support for it in the Senate," complained...
Since the schedule offers little relief from the rigors of last year, the Crimson faces another year of improvement and possibly slim pickings in the win column...
Ironically, one question of British policy in which Mountbatten had never played a role was that of Northern Ireland. Yet his death, following hard on the tenth anniversary of Britain's dispatch of troops to the province, inevitably threw into grave relief the unremitting tragedy of Britain's most enduring dilemma. Simply because of his stature, Mountbatten had been considered an obvious if illogical target for the I.R.A. Mullaghmore is only twelve miles from Northern Ireland, near an area known as a refuge for Provos fleeing across the border. Thus local police kept watch on the castle...
...private investment, Mondale said, the Carter Administration will ask for congressional authority to extend the guarantee of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. to include China, thus responding to the new Chinese investment law that allows up to 100% ownership of foreign-built projects. The U.S. moves came as a relief to Chinese leaders, who had been chafing at the slow pace of practical cooperation with...
...Soundlessly as I could, I slipped down from the desk and made my way on my toes to the daybed . . . My astonishment at what I'd overheard, my shame at the unpardonable breach of his trust, my relief at having escaped undiscovered-all that turned out to be nothing, really, beside the frustration I soon began to feel over the thinness of my imagination and what that promised for the future. Dad-da, Florence, the great Durante; her babyishness and desire, his mad, heroic restraint-Oh, if only I could have imagined the scene I'd overheard...