Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Development, which now oversees almost all U.S. aid and whose bureaucracy has swollen in inverse proportion to the funding of its programs. It would be replaced by three smaller agencies: the U.S. International Development Corporation, to manage some direct economic assistance as well as humanitarian programs such as disaster relief; the U.S. International Development Institute, to oversee technical assistance such as birth control programs and economic planning; and an as yet undefined authority, presumably responsible directly to the White House, to superintend all foreign economic policies, including trade as well as aid. Nixon is also attempting to solve a continuing...
...Style. Other diseases have failed to survive medical scrutiny. "Athlete's heart" was practically pronounced dead in 1927, to the relief of the anxieties of many a long-distance runner. Ptomaine, long blamed for food poisoning, has been exposed as a fraud; most of its symptoms are now attributed to bacterial or viral infections, while the rest are the result of chemical contamination...
...such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats-even to light fires or throw stones-for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. to refuse to become frustrated and angry: to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair: and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long...
...relief to begin marching. We are chanting, the group near me-Free our Sisters. Free Ourselves-and I feel suddenly happy, for a while at least, truly part of a movement, less alone. Even Liberation Now doesn't seem all that terrible. Along the sidewalk women wave, raise the V-sign, occasionally a fist; men look puzzled, sometimes hostile. "Fuck you" the most common insult. A little yellow car forces its way down the street, supposedly cleared of traffic; police apologize. I stand for a minute in its path, hoping I guess to stare down the driver. He doesn...
...such sentences at lunch urged him to show the prospectus to a publisher; and Workman Publishing Co., a small Manhattan firm, brought it out as a booklet indistinguishable in appearance from a real prospectus. The joke is now earning a modest profit, which Tauber intends to donate to war relief. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out almost immediately, and Workman has ordered a second printing of 10,000. The publisher has also begun advertising the parody with appropriately sedate "tombstone" ads in the New York Times. The ads make a pale contrast to the advertising program...