Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years. A local group "adopts" three known political prisoners: one in a Communist country, one in a non-Communist developed country, one in a "nonaligned" Third World nation (no group adopts prisoners in its own country). The adopting chapter boosts the morale of the prisoner with letters and material relief to his family, and bombards government officials at all levels with letters seeking his release. According to MacBride, "The avalanche of mail is the biggest annoyance to most governments. Soon the issue is being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone is wondering whether the guy is worth all the trouble...
...laws will be enforced. That pledge, mild as it might seem, came a few days after European and Japanese steelmakers had informally offered to restrict exports to the U.S., and it gave American steelmen some assurance that one of the nation's basic industries might get a little relief...
...much relief this can ultimately bring to the U.S. steel industry is questionable. The Treasury Department will have to thrash out pricing problems that approach the metaphysical. According to the way they add up the numbers, for example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...
...have now been resolved. Most notably, the CEA has dropped its objection to a Treasury proposal that would soften the policy of taxing dividends twice-once as corporate income and again as individual income of shareholders. Though the method to be used has not yet been finally decided, some relief from double taxation is all but certain to be included in the package. Ultimately, of course, the decision will be up to the President, who is studying nine position papers containing about 50 options, each with boxes labeled "Agree," "Disagree" or "Want to discuss further...
...sound of him was always unmistakable. To many, and surely to most Americans beyond a certain age, his voice was one of the few verities of popular entertainment. It seemed to dance out as irresistibly as a whimsical sigh of relief, full of fluid and breezy resonances perfectly suited to the fragile and often sticky sentiments of the romantic era that swept him to superstardom. His way of crooning was, as well, exactly attuned to the easygoing personality he projected onstage and in most of his 60 movies. His style was so relaxed-almost sleepy-that it was hard...