Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate issue remained the 49 hostages in Tehran. Concern about their fate far overshadowed any relief about the return of the 13 hostages?five white women and eight black men?who were freed by their captors and who made it home for Thanksgiving dinner. As the 13 stepped off the C-135 military jet that brought them into Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, dozens of relatives who had been flown there from all over the country rushed to embrace them. But the official welcoming could not be jubilant. Said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Our relief that...
...bound the eyes of some again. On one occasion, the Iranian female guards watching the American women took away all books, though they gave them back when the Americans protested. With nothing to do, and kept immobile, the hostages spent hours thinking about the next meal, which meant both relief from hunger induced by boredom and freedom to move their arms and legs...
...everyone except the United Nations," Flynn said. "This is reminiscent of a T.V. commercial where a guy goes to a bank looking for a loan and he gets a rain hat and a balloon but they don't give him any money. These people come here looking for significant relief and what are we going to give them? Further research?" he asked...
...years U.S. businessmen have complained that their overseas sales are being hurt by the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It made bribery of foreign officials by U.S. firms a crime punishable by jail terms and fines of up to $1 million. Now, according to Justice Department officials, some relief may be in sight. Starting early next year, the department's lawyers will offer advice to businessmen on how far they can go without risking prosecution...
Still, signs of inner strain were there: the chain-smoking, the use of drugs to get going in the morning and to stop at night, the increasingly heavy drinking. His remarkable face became a relief map of a ravaged land; Auden said he looked "like a wedding cake left out in the rain." Osborne does not flinch from presenting such evidence, but neither does he seem to know what to do with it: "On the Atlantic crossing back to England, he was uncharacteristically miserable, and on one occasion burst into tears, confessing to Isherwood that he could never find anyone...