Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OFFICIALS of troubled Lockheed Aircraft Corp. seemed to be living through a good news-bad news joke last week. The good news: the company got a much-needed lift when British European Airways ordered six of its wide-bodied airbuses, L-1011 TriStars, and took options on six more. The bad news: a few days later the Army canceled Lockheed's contract for developing the Cheyenne attack helicopter, which had been on the drawing boards for seven years but never got into production because of technical bugs and mounting cost estimates...
...sine qua non of the good life. Adam Smith argued in 1776 that "it is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labor." Economists ever since have insisted that only a rapid increase in output could lift mankind out of poverty. Politicians of every ideology have dedicated themselves to raising production, to the applause of their constituents...
...minimum of manpower. Steel plates are delivered by sea from Nippon Kokan's Fukuyama steelworks 300 miles away and fed into a computer-controlled process in which they are marked, cut, shaped and welded into major hull blocks. Two giant cranes that straddle the building dock then lift these components into place, and they are welded to the hull-again mostly by an automatic process. Another labor-saving device is the yard's ingenious T-shaped production layout. This allows ships to be floated out of the yard at two points, instead of the normal one, eliminating...
...least memorable, we watch a stifling process of human degradation symbolized by the desperate, random violence of tank-town prizefighting. Fat City is about a bunch of losers dying in spirit by slow, murderous inches. It lacks any substantial portion of compassion, however, any shred of insight to lift it above the level of a slumming expedition...
...have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici Ski Station in the southern town of Garibaldi (pop. 8,000). There, on a steep hillside, are two plastic-covered ski runs, four chalets and a 40-chair lift...