Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into effect two months ago but were held up by the latest price freeze. Steel executives argued at last week's hearings that the increases are needed to provide money to expand their plants. Some add privately that they can present cost data that would justify a lift of 6%. Their case was weakened by unrelated but embarrassingly timed indictments handed down by a federal grand jury, charging U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Armco and 14 smaller companies with fixing prices on certain products in Texas...
...face up to what Hughes, in an endearing, old-fashioned way, calls the human predicament. Perhaps anticipating the reader's disenchantment with Augustine, Hughes has his cynical Tory friend Jeremy make a plea about "Augustine's knack of having things happen to him without ever needing to lift a finger to make them happen...
...people up here," complains Vic Vickery, 35, an assistant drilling superintendent for British Petroleum. "We can't even have a gun here to protect ourselves against bears. We had four grizzlies come in the other day and we had to chase 'em off with a fork lift...
...real estate woman (Ullmann), who is 40 years old and tense about it, and the head of labor relations for a large steel company (Edward Albert), who is a vehemently mature 22. They meet on holiday in Greece. Her car expires; he persuades her, with difficulty, to accept a lift on his Honda, plies her with ouzo, and after a while-too long a while -they spend a blissful night together on the beach. They meet again in New York, where he shows up by chance one night to take her 17-year-old daughter on a date. There...
Meanwhile, consumers are confronted with the prospects of more expense in nonfood areas. The Cost of Living Council last week lifted the freeze on clothing manufacturers, a move that will soon be reflected in the price tags of the new fall lines. Uncontrolled interest rates keep soaring; major banks last week raised their prime lending rate to businessmen from 8¼% to 8½% and let it be known that they will soon lift it again to 8¾%-equaling the record set just before the money crunch of 1969. This is helping pull mortgage rates...