Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's homeless population has risen by 25% in the past year, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. Desperately seeking relief from the killing cold, the homeless filled shelters to overflowing as the windchill factor in several major cities dropped below zero...
Maher Nasser, a spokesman of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said Goulding "tried several entrances to the camp but could not enter...
...father in alcoholism. But the real point of this grim but touching account is that parents and siblings, the drinkers and those who stoically enabled others to drink, eventually turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon and were able to rebuild their sense of self and family. "Understanding brought relief and clarification," Somers concludes. "Even if the rest of your family doesn't get better...
...long officially kept up the increasingly shaky pretense that the Third World's $1 trillion debt should eventually be repaid in full. But now the Treasury Department has collaborated with the Mexican government and New York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust in devising a novel relief plan. The proposal calls for U.S. lenders to make voluntary concessions that could scale back Mexico's $106 billion in debts by as much as $10 billion...
...than the old debts. Reason: before issu bonds that would be worth $10 billion when they mature in 20 years. The U.S. bonds would then serve as collateral for the new Mexican paper. While the proposal may be a breakthrough in the debt standoff, the $10 billion in loan relief would still leave Mexico with a daunting load. Moreover, the scheme may not be readily adaptable for such other debtor nations as Brazil and Argentina, which cannot match Mexico's relatively healthy $15 billion in foreign currency reserves...