Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other areas of the economy, businessmen may raise prices only to reflect higher costs, and then only if the increases do not lift profit margins above a certain ceiling or are limited to 1.5%. The guideline for wage increases at least temporarily stays at 5.5%, or at most 6.2% when all fringe benefits are included. As Nixon put it, "Business and workers will be able to determine for themselves the conduct that conforms to the standards...
...Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon calls for an end to the choice between capitalism and socialism "as they have been defined by men of other continents and other ages." Without large-scale private investments and technical aid from the capitalist world he says it will take centuries to lift themselves up from the inhuman poverty in which they exist today. Here is a plan -- a concrete program - which joins the cause of a freer and better life in America to the struggle for national liberation abroad and throughout the underdeveloped world. For those who have not lost faith...
...pound MIT freshman, Earland Van Lift-dejude, will tackle Harvard's Carl Culig in unlimited and could pull an upset, MIT coach Chassey predicted. "He never wrestled before coming to MIT," Chassey said. "Early list fall I spotted him on the street, and needing a heavyweight, I asked him to join up. He's doing a good job for a beginner...
...have only recently returned from five weeks in the Republic of Ireland. The food isn't particularly great, but it is fresh. When I returned to New York, nothing tasted right. I got no lift from my food; only listlessness and discomfort. Our food is not really meant for human consumption -only for machines...
...Dolphins-Browns game at all was Richard Nixon, who was resting in his Key Biscayne retreat over the holiday weekend. Earlier in the week, the nation's No. 1 football fan had directed Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to ask N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle to lift the blackout on all playoff games that were sold out 48 hours in advance. Rozelle refused, explaining that easing of the TV ban could seriously reduce attendance at future games and might even turn pro football into a "studio show." Kleindienst countered by announcing that the Nixon Administration would urge the new Congress...