Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...range federal water projects. Though none of these projects could have any impact on the current drought, the Governors said that they were "angry" and "stunned" at the poor timing of Carter's announcement. The Secretary promised to ask President Carter to appoint a national coordinator for drought relief in the form of federal loans and other financial aid to help individuals survive economically if the drought ruined their crops or threw them out of work. The Governors also agreed to create a task force that could channel such requests for aid and coordinate weather-modification programs...
What makes the situation all the more frustrating is that relief is tantalizingly close. Some 300 to 600 feet below the surface lies a geological formation known as the Stony Creek alluvial fan that has 13 million acre-feet of water. The town is seeking a federal grant of $5 million to drill as many as 30 wells by May. But bureaucratic red tape has tied up the town's application for federal assistance...
...play's tragic relief is supplied by the wrenching pathos of the orchard's owner, Madame Ranevskaya. In this role the production boasts the splendid Irene Worth. Hers is a memorable portrayal - extravagant, feckless, alluring, touchingly vulnerable. When she ritualistically halves the telegram from her erstwhile lover in Paris - slowly, pain fully, like a bandage - an entire life is caught between the past it cannot release and the future it cannot resist...
...Plop, plop, fizz, fizz--Oh what a relief it is." Unfortunately the relief wasn't there, and neither was half the Harvard track team as the sick and injured Crimson succumbed to Princeton and beat only hapless Yale in Saturday's triangular meet at Princeton...
...Answer. Little relief is in sight...