Word: reliefs
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Shortly after hearing the news, Leonard began trying to organize a relief effort, starting with an e-mail plea for help to several Harvard open lists. She said she hopes to get in touch with her host family to find out “what they need on the ground” before moving forward with the relief effort planning, which is “still in its baby stages...
...build a bomb. It should not revert to the foolish bellicosity of the last Administration. And there is good news: Ahmadinejad assured us that he would not attempt to change Iran's constitution and run for a third term in 2013. That should come as some small relief to the mass of Iranians who yearn to breathe free...
...power down and rain pelting the region, it's impossible to determine yet how badly those districts were affected. But government officials, including the head of Indonesia's Health Ministry, expressed fears that thousands of people may have perished. The Indonesian government has committed about $10 million to the relief effort, with even the Vice President's jet being commandeered to fly in emergency supplies. (See pictures of the quake...
...only did Saturday’s game provide the Crimson with a measure of retribution against Penn, but it was also a relief after a tough preseason saw the team only win one game against New Hampshire earlier in the month...
...cessation of rocket fire, proactive action by the government here in Gaza to stop the rocket fire. And yet we have no positive development in terms of the siege and other actions that have been taken, which are crippling the whole society here," John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, told TIME on Sunday. "It's a tinderbox, this place, ready to explode at any time." After a cross-border attack on the recent Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Israeli army released a statement warning that it would "respond harshly to any attempt...