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He said yes, and I turned it off with a great sense of relief.
The film starts off fairly slowly, with only minor comic relief from Dennis Hopper.
The reason I give it 2 stars instead of just 1 is due to a few aesthetically pleasing elements; the cinematography is gorgeous old-school black and white (not like today's occasional black and white efforts that look like crap); the outdoor shots of upstate New York are a nice relief from the largely bare-walled interior scenes (it's a nice touch having Olga's hide-out be an abandoned mine, although clearly the rooms seen aren't in a mine); there's a long (and blessedly dialog-free) sequence of one of the victims getting chased through the countryside that almost achieves a kind of pastoral quality, reminiscent of the silent era; most of the women are fairly easy on the eye, especially Olga (who by the way is clearly American despite her foreign-sounding name).
The abrupt ending is blessed relief from the boredom.
The country is torn apart by war, Dracuala's minions are everywhere and yet Father Uffizi and his comic relief sidekick Luke are determined to reach the vampire's castle and to destroy him once and for all.
Unfortunately, the year ahead will bring little relief.
Sighs of relief greeted EU leaders’ mid-year agreement on a Reform Treaty aimed at overhauling the Union’s decision-making mechanisms, but it is still uncertain whether the new pact will survive the ratification process in 27 countries.
While domestic and international contributions still flow during relief efforts, it is Ethiopia’s long-term investments that have increased the country’s resilience.
So was the international community’s sigh of relief after the latest financial rescue – additional money from Greece’s creditors in exchange for structural reforms – premature?
Moreover, debt relief is being considered; the euro and the price of oil are both – helpfully – weaker; and, despite China’s economic slowdown, international economic developments remain broadly favorable.
As the death toll spirals upward and the full horror unfolds, much of the relief effort is on hold, unable to move ahead until the funds that have been promised arrive – a process that could take weeks or months.
In the case of Nepal and other disaster-prone regions, the fund could, and should, be used to strengthen immediate relief plans, improve coordinated responses, and support longer-term efforts to bridge humanitarian relief and development, including preventive measures, such as retrofitting schools.
No one is asking donors to make education a priority over immediate life-saving responses, or that financing be diverted from other emergency relief efforts.
To benefit American workers and spur economic growth, tax reforms need to increase the burden on the rich, and provide relief to workers and the middle class.
The limp debt exchange agreed to in July can be thrown out and replaced by one that grants the country meaningful debt relief.
Many countries, particularly in Europe, breathed a sigh of relief when membership in EMU was announced.
Creditors demand their pound of flesh; debtors clamor for relief.
Orthodoxy has always upheld the sacred rights of the creditor; political necessity has frequently demanded relief for the debtor.
Compare this with what happened in Russia, which was denied vitally needed funds and lasting debt relief.
In engaging the major powers, ASEAN will not shun traditional security issues, such as maritime cooperation, as well as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
WASHINGTON, DC – A year ago, Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory in the French presidential election, and his party’s subsequent success in legislative elections, caused many to breathe a sigh of relief.
The American World Turned Upside DownPARIS – From Washington, the enthusiasm of the French for intervention in Libya is seen with a mixture of relief and puzzlement.
China has historically approached broad-scale relief of troubled assets through three channels – capital injections, asset-management companies (AMCs), and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) – all of which have serious downsides.
China is, of course, not the only country that has struggled with troubled-asset relief.
It is undoubtedly a relief that the farrago of central and state sales taxes that had previously bedeviled Indian businesses will be replaced by the GST.
In this context, Emmanuel Macron’s election to the French presidency in May was a relief for Germany.
First, Latin American countries did not start growing again until debt had been substantially reduced through a series of initiatives – the most important being the Brady Plan of 1989, under which Latin American countries enacted reforms in exchange for debt relief.
Officials can now maintain real-time dashboards informing them of the current state of government facilities, transport networks, emergency relief operations, public health surveillance, violent crimes, and much more.
More aid (including debt relief) and greater access to rich countries’ markets for poor countries’ products now appears to be at the top of the global agenda.
I have forgotten the details of their conversation, but I can still hear my grandmother’s sigh of relief when she said “Thank God we lost that war!”From a child’s perspective, it wasn’t self-evident that losing was a good thing.
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