Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devaluation also may increase the number of dollars that multinationals must spend to buy, build or expand foreign factories. Adding up the pluses and minuses, Wall Street analysts think that the multinationals will invest a greater share of their money in U.S. operations, giving the American economy a welcome lift...
American cities more than most others suffer from the good intentions of urban planners. A case in point is the swing to highrise, low-rent housing projects in the 1950s. Built to literally lift the poor above the grime of slums, they instead deteriorated into vertical slums that now contribute so much to the congestion, isolation and ugliness of U.S. cities that urban planners often must wish that they could just knock them down and start over from scratch. St. Louis will soon do just that...
Definitely not. First of all, companies can increase their total profits by increasing the volume of sales. Moreover, they can lift their profit margins-the percentage of each sale that can be pocketed-provided that they do not raise prices. Examples of ways that such gains could be accomplished include: new efficiencies in production, substitute materials that lower costs (but do not lower quality), and reduction of labor input through automation. As long as a firm does not seek a price increase, it is free to chalk up profit gains...
...which has been built up perhaps too swiftly since the invasion by South Vietnamese and U.S. troops in May-1970. In an operation dubbed Chenla 11 (named after a Khmer kingdom that existed from the sixth to the eighth century), 20,000 Cambodian troops set out last August to lift ; 15-month siege of Kompong Thorn, 78 miles north of the capital on Route 6. By October, the main force had reached that objective, but in the meantime had left troops strung out in perilously thin numbers along the road. The North Vietnamese counterattacked at the town of Rumlong...
...showed a devouring sexual appetite, considering his spouse an object at his complete, total and permanent disposal." Judge Chesnelong said that Ismaëls conduct ran "from tenderness to the most refined bestiality. He could not pass near his spouse without trying to caress or kiss her, or to lift her skirt with a view to touching her. Several times a day he pursued her with assiduity, covering her with kisses on her entire body. And these aphrodisiac acts seemed the most natural thing in the world to him. Mme. Franconville justly called him a satyr...