Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program, but it must be judged as a whole. The spending programs that he proposes would be impossibly costly without the defense savings. McGovern himself recognizes that the income tax increases that the middle class would be hit with would be politically unsalable without the property-tax relief envisioned in his education proposals and the increased equity in the tax field promised by his inheritance-and corporate-tax suggestions. Though fuzzy in detail, his program does hang together conceptually...
...massive help arrived swiftly, as much from individuals responding spontaneously to the crisis as from relief agencies. "We all live so far apart that we have to rely on each other to get along," explained Pat Dixon, a Rapid City banker. Leland Thayer and his 13-year-old son Gary drove all night from Gillette, Wyo., so their radioequipped truck could be used in the rescue effort. Coming even farther from the east, a Huron man who refused to give his name ("the credit should go to the whole town") sped through the night to deliver a truckload of clothing...
...been shelled daily in the heaviest artillery barrage of the entire Indochina war. It has also endured repeated ground assaults by North Vietnamese troops and tanks and incessant air attacks by U.S. fighter-bombers, gunships and B-52s on the city and its outskirts. A South Vietnamese relief column has remained stalled for two months by enemy gunfire along Highway 13 to the south...
...arthritis are inflammation of the synovium (the membrane lining the joint capsule) and subsequent erosion of the enclosed cartilage and bone. Doctors generally prescribe painkillers and other anti-inflammatory drugs including common aspirin. But according to Dr. Alan Wilde of the Cleveland Clinic, early surgery may provide more permanent relief and slow the progress of the disease as well. Wilde told a scientific session of the Arthritis foundation that he had performed synovectomies on 39 patients, delicately removing the inflamed tissue from a total of 121 finger joints. Most of the patients experienced complete relief of pain, while...
There is a "World Progress Report" that features only good news, such as the intelligence that the U.N.'s new "disaster relief coordinator" has begun to attempt to coordinate relief. From International Editor Roland Gelatt (based in London) comes a detailed analysis of what will happen to London's Covent Garden Market when the area undergoes urban renewal 18 months hence...