Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western industrial nations want Japan to expand domestic demand and consumption by taking steps to stimulate the economy and lift average Japanese incomes. That would tend to raise imports and reduce exports because Japanese wages and other costs would go up. But such a course risks higher Japanese inflation and lower profits, which the nation's business establishment opposes. Unless the corporate chiefs relent, however, they risk the greater shock of having their access to world markets sharply curtailed. The threat of selective protectionism against Japan is rising, and it worries U.S. officials. It would dangerously damage relations with...
Residents will be glad to hear that the Quad's face-lift went well. The sod is beginning to take root, and fences barring traffic across the newly sodded lawns will soon be removed...
...Senate passed a resolution last year that if the Rhodesian election was judged to be "free and fair" and open to all factions and if the new government seemed ready to talk to the Patriotic Front, then the Administration should recognize it and try to lift the economic sanctions. President Carter has said that by the time the new government is installed, he will make a decision on recognition that will be based on "a moral dimension and not legislative politics...
...tipping the nation into recession, or to maintain rates at their present levels, which might worsen inflation. Their deliberations will be kept secret for a month, but early signs are that the committee, which has been closely divided on the issue in the immediate past, voted not to lift rates...
...psychological effect on Americans of all this crisscross Realpolitik is to lift a lot of the moral burden off the American involvement. At the least, it seems less tenable to hold that the U.S. was guilty of the uniquely satanic imperialism that antiwar critics often saw-and still frequently see-behind American policy. The new conflicts in Southeast Asia add an element of retrospective perplexity to analysis of what the U.S. was doing there...