Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Warren pretty much supervises the bailout...
...until last July, that is, when Taipei and Beijing agreed to start direct flights between Taiwan and China and open up tourism on the island to 3,000 Chinese visitors every day. The direct flights were a relief to the four million Taiwanese who travel to China every year, cutting a seven-hour slog to Shanghai, which had to be made through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring...
...buffet available, but at $21.75 is hardly the most economical of options. Unlike Harvard Dining, only the rich get to eat all that they want here. The menu says NO TIPPING in large letters near the bottom, which will make stingy college students breath a sigh of relief, but then the fine print underneath says that there is a surcharge of 18 percent! Even if your party is less than six people! Sneaky, indeed...
...York City—like that exerted on energetic bugs by a sophisticated flame—has long been undeniable. But an undercurrent of dissent is beginning to appear, as the collapse of the financial market has thrown some of the pitfalls of this high lifestyle into high relief for young people. There is, believe it or not, life outside of New York City. And, although it might be different, it’s probably not as terrible as you think...
...comes in and hits a home run—much better than a bunt.”But the Eagles came roaring back in the bottom of the fourth, taking advantage of a number of Harvard errors. After junior Margaux Black, who came on in relief to pitch out of a jam in the third, loaded the bases, consecutive misplays from Vertovez at shortstop let two runs cross the plate. “We got into a little bit of trouble, and our defense should have been there to pick up our pitchers,” Vertovez said...