Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colorado that year and got interested in skiing. "As we grew up," Jim says of his brothers and sisters, "they started each one of us. I messed around on skis when I was five and six; it was hardly skiing. I think the first time I rode a lift I was seven. I loved it right from the start." Jim and his siblings got pointers from their parents and friends, skied scared, skied out-of-control, skied cold, but skied. Gradually, Jim's skiing improved, and he began to ski with his older brother and his friends...
...some of the other patrollers would drive up to Winter Park in Jim's jeep. There was real incentive not to be late; the last two arrivals had to sweep and mop the patrol room floor. They spent the day skiing with friends, free. "We had to wait in lift lines unless we skied with a senior patrolman, then we could cut the lift lines. The way to do that was to start skiing with a real foxy looking female junior. Then you'd get one of the 50-year-old seniors whose wife was giving him shit...
...prevent just that, the U.S. would use the new borrowings to buy its own money. This would give the dollar at least a temporary lift and allow the U.S. time to reduce its budget and trade deficits and to enact a policy for developing and conserving energy-all of which will be necessary to restore America's currency to its old eminence...
...additional loans. Indeed, he believes that in return for propping the dollar, America could extract a quid pro quo, notably persuading the reluctant West Germans and Japanese to expand their economies in order to enhance world recovery. "It is in the interest of all governments to intervene to lift the dollar," Triffin says persuasively. "The problem simply cannot be left to the tender mercies of the speculators...
...when a dancer balances on one leg, the other crooked in the air behind her. Like a drop of oil spreading through cloth, the point of focus begins to color one's perception of all kinds of movement: a jump becomes weight gathered down and exploded upward; one dancer lifting another becomes weight gliding in slow motion, a leisurely delighting in the measure of lift and rest...