Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though the rotation is flexible and many of Walsh's pitchers will do double-duty in middle relief capacities, Walsh expects three starters to be rotation mainstays: senior Garett Vail, freshman Ben Crockett and sophomore John Birtwell...
...package of targeted, Clinton-style tax breaks crafted by Connecticut's Nancy Johnson. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who only two weeks ago was flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan, had a change of heart, saying last week that he was happy that tax relief was being debated at all. A plan more likely to emerge from Lott's domain is being drawn up by Senate budget boss Pete Domenici, a cautious deficit hawk who wants to postpone tax cuts until surpluses grow much larger. New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli is proposing yet another idea...
...most pained character in the whole drama was basketball legend and Laker vice president Jerry West, who had complained about stress on the job pre-Rodman. West too appeared near tears, but it wasn't clear whether it was from firing his friend Harris or from sheer relief that Rodman, who uses his head as an evolving art project and wears enough facial rings to hang curtains, hadn't shown up wearing a dress. Yes, Rodman is right for L.A. But for the Lakers...
What has changed since Emmett Till? There is a greater civility. In Jasper members of the families of the men accused of killing James Byrd have asked forgiveness of Byrd's relatives. One of the dead man's sisters has spoken of reconciliation. And there is cause for relief that a jury of 11 whites and one black in a small Southern town could come to the same moral conclusion, the same definition of justice. In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were declared not guilty by an all-white jury in less time than it takes to watch...
...years, credit-card companies have been after Congress to allow Americans to charge their tax bills, a move that Congress finally authorized in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. The IRS started a pilot program in January that permits you to charge 1998 federal taxes (and only 1998) on MasterCard, American Express or Discover. You simply phone 1-888-2PAY-TAX or, if you are a Discover-card holder, pay over the Internet via Intuit's TurboTax software...