Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter how it is gauged, all this is splendid news for Mexicans, millions of who live in poverty. Pemex hopes to lift production from its present 1.5 million bbl. a day to 2.5 million by 1980. At the same time, it expects to triple its oil exports to 1 million bbl. a day, mainly to the U.S. (whose total imports now are 9.1 million bbl.). As a result, oil earnings are expected to hit $8 billion annually...
...time, even for those of us who were not living in or near Washington. We do need another lift in these times. I hope our present President can help us, though he lacks the style of President Kennedy. I know of no one else except Teddy, but agree with those who say, "Oh, I hope he doesn...
...officially endorses the monetary union as an important step toward the integration of Europe. In the short run the plan should help the dollar. Reason: European governments will usually not sell dollars in attempts to lift their own currencies and that will relieve downward pressure on the greenback. Instead, these countries will sell other European currencies...
...already requires tax-exempt schools to advertise their absence of racial discrimination, the new plan had seemed a logical next step. In Louisiana and Mississippi, courts have halted state aid to discriminatory schools but have left their federal tax exemptions intact; the new procedure would allow the IRS to lift those exemptions. Says IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz: "Existing procedures have permitted some schools to obtain tax-exempt status by having 'paper policies' of nondiscrimination, while in fact continuing to operate in a racially discriminatory manner." U.S. Civil Rights Commission Chairman Arthur Flemming supported Kurtz at last week...
However, George's concern right now is with the team's success. He said last night, referring to the effect of the big win, "Maybe this is the lift for us." Maybe so. Let's all hope so. But, at any rate, George is the utter most