Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, hoping to arouse popular support with a televised speech that claimed he was being framed by the Justice Department and, by implication, Nixon himself. The Republican women in his Los Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...
Although his office is filled with ceremonial symbols of Austria's imperial past, Kreisky has been a most unregal Chancellor. He freely mingles with the public without a bodyguard, writes innumerable thank-you notes, and waits his turn in line for the ski lift when on vacation. He also hobnobs with Vienna's most brilliant intellectuals and artists. The ease with which he mixes with all strata of Austrians has made him his country's most popular postwar Chancellor, so much so that a Kreisky-souvenir industry has blossomed-complete with Kreisky piggy banks, T shirts...
...only takes one good idea ..." So runs the old American saw about the old American dream of overnight wealth. Cops and Robbers is about a pair of the former (attractively played by Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman) who turn into the latter in order to lift themselves out of their installment-plan lives as neighbors in a Queens culdesac. Although they fail to score on their prime target, a vaultful of bearer bonds in a Wall Street brokerage house, they finally lay a solid hit on a secondary target of opportunity-the Mafia-and walk off chortling...
Miraculous Capacity. Immediately, the nation can-and will-give production a big lift by putting idle cropland back into use. During the past dozen years, an average of 60 million acres of farm land, out of a total of 330 million, has been kept fallow by the operations of the price-support program. Roughly 40 million acres were released for output in time for this year's planting season. Last month President Nixon signed into law a new policy that eliminates acreage controls altogether and permits a farmer to sell his crop for whatever the market will bring...
Increasing acreage, of course, gives production only a one-shot lift. Indeed, U.S. cropland is being steadily nibbled away to make room for roads, factories and housing. The real key to all-out farm production is raising yields per acre-and in this the U.S. has a capability that is little short of miraculous...