Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentences seemed stiff by Western standards. But in Tunisia there was general relief at the court's relative leniency. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for all 90 defendants, which would have provided the , fundamentalists with a large crop of martyrs and further energized their attacks on the government. The militants were charged with trying to overthrow the secular, pro-Western regime of President Habib Bourguiba and install an Iranian-style Islamic republic. Some of the seven sentenced to hang were implicated in the August bombings of four tourist hotels, in which twelve foreigners were hurt...
...when investors suddenly realize the party is over. Already, the Dow Jones industrial average has started to show signs of second thoughts. Between late August and mid- September the index fell almost 200 points, prompting investors to wonder whether the reckoning was finally at hand. But last week came relief. The Dow took a 75.23-point jump on Tuesday, the largest one-day advance in history, before easing back to 2570.17, up 45.53 for the week...
...National Football League strike came as such a relief...
...combat the pending seriousness,resourceful Harvard students staged a spot ofcomic relief at the 1955 Harvard-Yale game; duringhalftime, the Yale Marching Band was forced toshare the field with several greased pigs...
Still smarting from being outmaneuvered, the Navy is auditing the Dravo project and continues to lobby against the relief measure. "It's a matter of principle," said the senior Defense official. "When you sign a contract, you're supposed to produce. We have got to draw a line on this one and tell the world that's the way it should run." That is just what Congress has been telling the Pentagon all along...