He was carrying a beat-up and bulging old leather diary with a painted, hand-tooled relief of a horse on its cover.
And, once the screwdriver was in her hand, she felt instant relief from the pain of having an old soft-backed man snuffling under her tub, and then something more than relief: a blessed indifference, as if the very idea of feeling pain over such a thing were baffling.
Relief may be at hand in the shape of a Constitutional Court ruling on July 29th which disallowed the European ballot.
Others, such as Wipro Cares, match contributions from employees and provide disaster relief, lending a hand after the earthquake in Gujarat or the floods in Orissa, for instance.
Because they need his help, they take his hand, with the same mixture of regret and relief with which so many people take Jack Stanton's.
In fact, disaster response provides an excellent example of how the invisible hand of the market works to alleviate suffering and bring quick relief to those in need.
Les Hems, research director of the Institute for Philanthropy, another new charity, says donors should be allowed (as in America) to hand over capital to a charity while still enjoying the income and tax relief until death, when the charity gets the whole lot.
In 2009 he used the phantom limb again to provide evidence for this theory, showing that sufferers could experience relief from phantom pain merely by watching someone else massaging or flexing their own hand.
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Indeed, the action pounds so thick and fast, it's a relief when hard-working composer John Powell grants us a brief reprieve for a brutal hand-to-hand scrap scored only to thumps, bumps and grunts.
Debt-relief companies also can't charge a consumer until there's a written contract in hand and at least one payment has been made to a creditor.
Sure, short-term interest rates will go up, but the markets will heave a sigh of relief if we signal that we're not going to let the situation get out of hand.
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