Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the shutdown, Gingrich remorsefully talked of sidelining himself, of having "thrown one too many interceptions." Back then no one knew that this would be his habit. In June 1997 the issue was disaster relief. Republicans loaded the bill with blatantly partisan riders, assuming Clinton wouldn't dare veto it. The President did, within minutes of its landing on his desk, and the Republicans were blamed for flood victims' getting stranded. A coup ensued, but Gingrich prevailed, primarily because there was no obvious candidate to replace him. His response: a 12-point memo on the lessons to be learned from...
Many if not most of Mitch's victims were youngsters--including not only those who drowned but also those whose malnourished bodies were no match for the deadly septic infections set free in the waters. Says Charles Compton, local head of Plan International relief organization: "We have to keep starvation and infection from claiming as many victims as the hurricane did." When the final tally is in, the assertions of a staggering toll may well be borne out. Those whom the floodwaters did not kill face the problems of isolation, starvation, disease and neglect--the normal stuff of tragedy...
...will begin rolling out DSL service to consumers in Atlanta; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and four other Southeastern cities before the end of this year. Many of these services will offer less than full-throttle speeds and cost $60 or more a month, but they still spell relief from today's World Wide Wait...
...relative newcomer to the FSC gambit is Microsoft, which helped lobby for a 59-word clause in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 that sweetened the tax break for software makers. The result will cost taxpayers an extra $1.7 billion over the next 10 years. That's ostensibly meant to encourage Microsoft and others to export, but Microsoft is already an aggressive exporter. So the tax break is in effect a bonus to encourage Microsoft to do something it already does...
...slashing costs. But Sunbeam's share price collapsed when he tried to push the business's growth. Two weeks ago, when CBS tapped Mel Karmazin to be CEO, replacing Michael H. Jordan, CBS stock jumped. But it wasn't so much a bet on Karmazin as a sigh of relief that Jordan was leaving. Under Jordan, CBS has run last among the big networks. But can Karmazin, a shrewd TV and radio-station operator, fix the Tiffany Network's programming? Not exactly his forte...