Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within moments, donation buckets were being passed through the banquet tables. When the buckets returned, the Red Cross had $9,000 for disaster relief...
...while many participated in the emerging student activities on campus, others looked outward. One group started the Harvard Relief Fund to raise money for students overseas who were in dire straits after the destruction of the past six years...
...final exam was invariably based on five books on this reading list. If you read those, you were home free. I had other things to do that spring and I didn't go to any classes. I read the five books and sure enough, with a great sigh of relief I saw that the questions were all related to my reading. I wrote, I thought, a credible exam. I put a return-address slip in the blue book to see how well I had done. It came back with an E. I sailed up to see Dr. Whittlesly. I knocked...
Even as early as 1879, Heinz touted the benefits of its ready-made catsup with this ad: "For the blessed relief of mother and other women of the household." In 1953, a year before Ray Kroc raised McDonald's now ubiquitous Golden Arches, a Swanson food technician named Betty Cronin created the "TV dinner." Back then, when meal preparation took an average two hours, the frozen meal on a three-section aluminum tray was lauded for helping mothers "burdened with baby-boom offspring." Today the once labor-intensive process of preparing a meal has been shrink-wrapped to a tidy...
...Microsoft has taken two separate products--the operating system and the browser--and illegally tied them together. In order to make sure this market doesn't tip and become a monopoly, we thought the most effective, immediate relief would be to ensure carriage for Netscape as the only company that can prevent monopolization...