The time-consuming voting overwhelmed polling centers on Election Day and left legislators looking for relief.
We're for tax relief today and we're going to be for tax relief tomorrow.
The government estimates 2, 200 of those applicants will ultimately be eligible for relief.
McClung says as many as 100 people a day came in for relief of everything from shingles to spider bites.
Pepperidge Farm heirs look to Supreme Court for relief in a case that affects virtually every trust and every estate.
And during Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Sandy, it was Griffiss International Airport that served as a staging area for relief efforts.
Not surprisingly, AARP, the big senior lobby, is pushing Congress for relief.
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But banks are eager for relief, and lawmakers don't want to be caught fiddling while Wall Street burns--especially this close to Election Day.
Plans by the Bank and the Fund to make more countries eligible for relief, agreed this week, may not change that picture quickly.
One of the first life insurers, in 1759, was called the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers.
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Although Americans often complain that Congress does little besides argue, Capitol Hill is the first place they look for relief from surging gasoline prices.
It says it has been driven to this because its lobbying for relief from business rates and the climate change levy has achieved nothing.
Following the earthquake that devastated Haiti earlier this week, Obama asked Bush and former President Bill Clinton to lead the fundraising efforts for relief.
Obama's plan for relief includes putting a windfall profits tax on oil companies, using the proceeds to help Pennsylvania families pay their heating and cooling bills.
Tens of thousands are at risk of losing their lives in the drought and starvation and many are fleeing their homes for relief camps in Ethiopia and Kenya.
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Robin: Dahlia, do you think it is right for relief agencies to try to bring food and other help into the South even though the war is continuing?
And I'm pleased that President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton have agreed to lead a major fundraising effort for relief: the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
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Each one I believe was an inner cry for relief.
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At the time this case was initiated, the same U.S. furniture producers who were petitioning for relief from imports from China were investing in furniture operations in other countries.
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But there are suggestions that at least some in this business are unscrupulous, taking advantage of people desperate for relief, getting paid cash up front, with little follow through.
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Minimum standards are 150 innings per year for starting pitchers, 50 innings for relief pitchers, and 300 at-bats for everyday players, for at least four of the past five seasons.
If Asia's central banks also remain willing swing purchasers of the dollar, that may seem cause for relief: it suggests that things will go on much as they are, avoiding a hard landing.
The group says it uses the site as an office for relief work in an area hit by a major earthquake in 2005 but it did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
Some are afraid that such problems could also plague debt relief, and are thus pushing for relief to be offered to only those countries whose governments are democratic and whose policies encourage economic growth.
At a warehouse where workers from the Syrian Business Council for Relief and Development loaded sacks of rice into trucks for distribution to refugees, council members handed out rice to Jordanians gathered around the vehicles.
Since the more liberal law was passed, the agency has received 85, 000 applications for relief and has ruled on just a fourth of them, granting the petitioning spouse full relief in 45% of those cases.
"This action comes after several weeks when the company has reviewed, considered and received the recommendations and advice with respect to potential avenues for relief that are currently available, " the company said in a statement Thursday.
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