Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just about a year ago that interest rates began falling sharply, a decline that the Nixon Administration and private economists have since been counting on to help lift business out of the 1970 recession. But in the past three to four months, the rates have been rising again (see chart) and the bounceback has gone high enough to stir worry. Henry Kaufman, a partner of Salomon Bros., warned last week that a continuation of the rise would "eventually abort the economic recovery" by making financing difficult...
...that makes children's balloons rise to string-length heights. It also has scientific and military uses considered strategically important by the Federal Government. Helium has appeared on military embargo lists since before World War I, when the Allies used it in dirigibles.* Today it is used to lift weather balloons, to maintain pressure in liquid-propellant rockets and as a coolant in nuclear power plants. In liquid form, it provides supercool temperatures for laboratory experiments. Thus it seemed a sensible idea when in 1960 the Government, faced with possible shortages of the relatively scarce...
Cutting the Dividends. It will take more than grumbling at the club to lift the steel industry out of its trough. Prices for raw materials have risen sharply since 1968; nickel and coal have gone up 40%. Steel's earnings amount to only 5% of stockholders' equity-dead last in a field of 22 top manufacturing industries. Most companies have cut their dividends by one-third this year. Even so, the salaries of top steel executives are often huge. U.S. Steel Chairman Edwin H. Gott, for example, last year collected a salary...
...loss of the coin over the weekend," Harvard coach Loyal Park said yesterday. "To be playing at home should give the boys a lift. Yet the credit has to go to my wife for our luck in this thing. She's been praying for the team for weeks and it's finally paid...
...give the project a sound revolutionary imprimatur, as well as a psychological lift, student leaders traveled to Saigon and Hanoi to hammer out joint peace proposals with local student groups. Davis visited the Hanoi delegation in Paris again; when he returned, a conference of some 2,000 students was held in Ann Arbor, Mich., where the scenario for Mayday was approved...