Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castro has had the support of the Cuban people in what he's done. Yet he had even more support when he still advocated a return to the Constitution of 1940. Overwhelming relief swept over most Cubans when Batista fled; Castro was popular enough to be supported in almost any course...
...million are under Israeli control in the occupied territories and another million and a half make up a Palestinian diaspora. Roughly 500,00 of the overall number of three million live in refugee camps in the occupied territories and in the neighboring Arab countries maintained by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA...
Burbank said drilling is more noisy than blasting. "The blasting is going to be a relief [compared with drilling] ... it will be just a little thump, but then there will be more drilling," he said...
...people, once "fans" of Walker's, breathed relief. Walker wouldn't have wanted to live paralyzed, they said, and he wouldn't have wanted to go to jail. Theirs was no grief for "a fine young life nipped in the bud" or "a good boy who made one mistake." Walker, after all, was a bad boy; he had always frightened teachers and young girls, and he had made too many mistakes on the order of assault and battery and burglary. They didn't read "To an Athlete Dying Young" at his funeral, the ode that is so customary at funerals...
...trade. The courts will have to determine whether these actions-which have not previously been held to be illegal-violate the antimonopoly laws. The FTC does not specify what it wants the companies to do in order to end these alleged abuses. For the moment, it asks only "such relief as is necessary or appropriate." This might include forcing the companies to divest themselves of their refining or marketing operations or both...