Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has come and is coming in the South cannot be celebrated by us all. The 25% native population of Atlanta cannot take any pride in the polluted air that increasingly blankets the city's soaring buildings, in the clogged freeways for which there is no visible relief, and in the growing transient population that causes more problems than it cares about solving. Atlanta is too busy to hate, a native can tell you, simply because its white residents are too busy leaving town...
Afterwards, they still had enough spirit to celebrate, but it was a quite celebration. There were hors d'oeuvres, soft drinks, and champagne in an adjacent room whose air conditioning was a relief to the guests. "It's only appropriate that a missiles man should do that." said Robert W. Anestis, one of the men commissioned, as Folk opened the first bottle of champagne. Folk is with the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System...
...boring search procedure (The Atlantic Magazine appropriately called it "a model" for presidential searches on other campuses) oriented publicly toward finding the ideal man, people did indeed begin to believe that whoever was chosen must necessarily be ideal. The final list of 23 was greeted with a sigh of relief for the number of names which had been dropped from the previous larger list, and the impression of conciliation lingered for a month as people waited for the final announcement. Among the 23, there were two obvious front-runners-Bok and Dunlop-and a third "outside candidate" (as media...
Beside Doyle and Reeve, Charlie Koch is at Annapolis in a relief capacity. All three are strong candidates for All-American this year, largely contingent on how well they do this week in the finals...
...aided the elderly by slowing the breakdown of adrenaline. Drugs that prevent serotonin buildup helped those adversely affected by the ionized air. So did the lonotron, a machine the size of a tabletop radio. Developed by Hebrew University scientists, the device supplies negative electricity to an indoor area, bringing relief to overcharged victims...