Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...switch in plans was a particular disappointment to Brzezinski, who had masterminded the trip. But it came as something of a relief to many of Carter's aides, including Vance, who all along had questioned the wisdom of the expedition, even though Vance defended it in public. During last year's presidential campaign, Carter said he would not travel abroad in his first year in office. Yet he had already attended the London summit in May, and here he was preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland...
When the two-year drought first parched much of the country in 1976, farmers cried that unless Washington came to their rescue they faced financial ruin. Congress obliged by making the farmers eligible for easy-to-get, easy-to-repay loans under the Small Business Administration's disaster relief program. Now farmers in some areas are afflicted not by drought but by harvests so bountiful that prices have fallen. So back to the trough of federal aid they have come-in a stampede. They have made such a run on the SBA farm loans that administrators who once budgeted...
Some farmers were, and still are, genuinely on the brink of disaster-and genuinely in need of federal relief. But in many cases the availability of the emergency loans has been simply unwarranted. The SBA overgenerously declared a full two-thirds of S all U.S. counties disaster areas and therefore eligible for the loans...
...recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure at four sets of points on the body (wrists, temples, hands and neck). The object of Kurland's "acupressure": to overload the nervous system's pain centers?in effect, jamming the signals from the headache. While Kurland's results have not been...
...year. Under the proposals, a married couple earning $8,750 a year will pay $95 less income tax; Britons will be allowed to spend more pounds abroad; widows and pensioners will get a one-shot, tax-free Christmas bonus of $18 each; and small businesses will be granted some relief from the tax on sales or other transfers of business assets. SANTA DENIS! cried a headline in London's racy tabloid...