Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unity of the progressive country style that burgeoned beneath Willie's-and Austin's-banner, its exponents were diverse and farflung. Some were identified with the city's rowdy club scene, like the hard-drinking Jerry Jeff Walker, whose life-style could qualify for federal disaster relief. Others, like Michael Murphey, started in Austin but moved on to other locales. Now living in Evergreen, Colo., Murphey has a cooler sound than many of the progressives and writes lyrics about themes like urban sprawl and the advent of fast-food chains where the Cavalry once rode. Still others...
...dramas need to be enacted--especially one that never gives the answer but charges $10 anyway. Sexual Perversity in Chicago never really gets to the point. It is a trite medley of some stereotyped, six-pack guys, their neurotic quests for orgasmic relief, and creeping cynicism...
...Relief of a sort may also be on the way from Washington. After months of debate, Senators and Representatives are now in the final stages of approving a tuition tax credit scheme. If it passes-and then survives threats of a presidential veto -parents could write off as much as $250 a year for each member of the family enrolled in college. By 1980, that credit could be as high as $500. And so it goes...
...upstate New York, is one of a handful of schools that have taken to holding freshman orientation early and?rarer still?inviting parents along too. While the incoming students spend the 2½-day period registering for courses and meeting their new classmates, they are firmly segregated (to their relief) from their elders. This year, the eighth in which Rochester has conducted the program, some 600 parents of 1,100 freshmen paid a small fee ($33) to learn about university life. Many are sending off their first child; some never went to college themselves. For all of them, says Administrator Arthur...
...miners want relief under an amendment to the 1977 Clean Air Act sponsored by Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum. This empowers the President, on an EPA recommendation, to force utilities to burn local coal and still meet pollution standards when other measures (like using out-of-state coal) would cause "economic disruption." Whoever finally wins, someone must lose: either electricity users, miners or the living, breathing residents of Ohio...