Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual basis. The final payment would not be made until the fourth year and would not be counted in the three-year package. The union insists on getting the increase twice a year, with the next-to-final payment falling due in the third year. That would lift the overall settlement two percentage points above what the Government is willing to accept...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) sub-committee on house systems may well decide to call on a plastic surgeon soon--it seems it may be time the freshman housing lottery had a face lift...
...Carter administration, however, appears unready to embark on a program to seriously promote solar and wind power and whiles away its energy policy hours concocting elaborate plans to lift the controls that regulate domestic oil prices. Raising prices, the administration maintains, will stimulate domestic production and discourage consumers from wasting oil. Ideally, the oil companies will use the extra revenue for the expanded exploration they talk so much about and the government will tax away windfall profits. In fact, the rise in oil prices after deregulation--which may be as much as seven cents per gallon of gas--coupled with...
...stand-ins Bob Montgomery (behind the plate for sore-armed Carlton Fisk) and Jack Brohamer (playing third base until Butch Hobson is ready to throw again) each banged out a double and a triple. Montgomery added a single, and Brohamer turned three nifty plays at the hot corner to lift one burden off the shoulders of New England...
...sense that there was nothing new left to do. George Thorogood, perhaps the most distasteful of a new breed of rock and roll reactionaries, declared his intention never to write his own songs because "Chuck Berry wrote them all already." Keith Emerson and other art-rock enthusiasts tried to lift the medium out of itself, and in so doing created something which, in Nick Lowe's phrase, had "as much to do with rock and roll as Walter Cronkite." Columnist Dave Marsh just got depressed and listened to old Who records...