Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resistance against international Communism was ending in an ambiguous stalemate. For the U.S., at least, it was over. In Viet Nam, fighting may well resume?or never entirely stop. Yet for the moment, those on all sides who had once sought victory now felt an exhausted sense of relief...
Saigon's streets were festooned with saffron and red flags and banners that declared VICTORY FOR SOUTH VIET NAM or, more convincingly, THE ENTIRE PEOPLE WELCOME THE CEASEFIRE. Yet there was no rejoicing, not even a sense of relief. Sunday, cease-fire or no, President Nguyen Van Thieu had decreed that all South Vietnamese civilians should go to their jobs as they would on a workday. The idea was to show that there was little to celebrate and that little had changed-a point Thieu made repeatedly in a combative TV address to the nation. "There is no peace...
...Nixon's family-assistance plan to provide a minimum income of $2,400 for a family of four is abandoned; no money for it is included in the budget. The Administration will also try to prod local communities into pruning relief rolls. The budget projects a saving of $592 million from stopping payments to "ineligibles...
According to a team of Harvard psychiatrists who have studied 100 cases, "the vast majority of women do not experience mental anguish." Quite the contrary: they feel great relief when the abortion is over, and their mental health becomes and remains better. In fact, after surveying 75 of his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad, Psychiatrist Jerome Rummer concluded that the notion of post-abortion mental illness is probably myth: "Abortion, far from being a precipitator of psychiatric illness, is actually a defense against it in women susceptible to mental illness...
...critics briefly-until they realized that inflation had virtually made the amount worthless in real terms than the $7,000,000 the company had offered to pay in 1969. Distillers tried again, offering to increase the amount to $26 million if the government would grant it some tax relief. Alert critics pointed out that the company was really offering the same $12 million, and asking the taxpayers to foot the bill for the remaining $14 million...