Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the winding Texas-Mexican frontier and through the Chula Vista corridor south of San Diego, illegal Mexican immigrants have been entering the U.S. in record numbers in search of jobs and relief from poverty at home. "They have some vague idea that if they get here, they might be able to stay," says Border Patrol Agent Tom Johnson in McAllen, Texas. "It doesn't take much of a rumor to get them started...
...practice, there was always the fear of cuts, returning to haunt. On the other hand, team spirit provided some relief...
...ASIDE an evening to endure this sort of film sounds bad enough in theory; the reality is even worse. Herzog does not film scenes, he leers at them, trying to extract every droplet of meaning and mood his flabby creative muscles can muster. And the sluggish screenplay gives little relief. You never get the feeling that much has been lost in the translation because there isn't much to be lost in the first place. That Herzog can summon the raw nerve to inflict this unredeeming and unredeemable trash on an audience speaks volumes about what obligations he feels...
...Primarily, says the NERC, because "overlapping and conflicting" Government regulations delay construction of generating and transmission facilities. The utilities especially complain that "lack of timely and adequate rate relief (meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land...
Technically, it begins next week. Actually, it began with the epic sigh of relief that could be sensed all over the U.S. right after Labor Day. Even before it arrives, Americans always manage to get into autumn. And no wonder. It is easily the most habitable season of the year...