Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual add and subtract names right up until the last minute, and were glad that there was still time to delete the Washington socialite who died in a suspicious fire. Says the publisher with a sigh of relief: "It is awful to have someone who may have been murdered still listed in the book...
...pressmen went on strike after publishers of the three dailies posted new work rules which would have eliminated the jobs of nearly half of the 1550 pressmen at the three papers. The publishers insisted they needed relief from restrictive work rules and expensive manning requirements in order to meet competition from aggressive suburban papers...
...years at the New Yorker, Trillin has reported on a wide range of subjects. Murders. A Chinese town in California bought by a Hong-Kong developer. Integration of Atlanta schools in the fall of '61. The idea of foodwriting, he said, came to him as a sort of "comic relief...
...This is a historic turning point," Begin had said during the intense 17-hour debate that preceded the vote. Indeed, a collective sigh of relief went up in Cairo and Washington when results of the balloting were known. Of course, obstacles remain, and key problems are unsolved, but the Jerusalem decision cleared the way for the start of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that may well lead to a peace treaty between these neighboring enemies by Christmas...
...such band-aid is the circuit-breaker for property tax relief--when the state runs a surplus it gives the money back to home-owners, scaled according to need. This is all well and good--we don't want the corporations to reap the windfalls as they did from Proposition 13. But circuit-breakers only divert time and attention from the real structural inequities in the tax system--the loopholes for the rich, the abatements for the corporations, the regressiveness of using tax incentives and credits to execute policy...