Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with after the recession Christmas of three years ago, bought only enough this year to cover the sales gains they expected and got. Their shelves are now cleaned off, and will have to be restocked. So store orders to manufacturers for more merchandise could give the whole economy a lift during the first quarter and well into spring...
...gave the Crimson its first face-lift in 50 years...
...peasant from pharaonic days would find life little altered along much of the riverbank today: land is still divided into tiny plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...boosts began with an announcement from Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., the industry's ninth largest producer, that it would lift the price of sheet steel used in cars and other consumer goods by 7% on Jan. 3. Bethlehem Steel, the second largest producer, followed with an announcement that it would raise prices on most of its products by an average of 5.5% effective Feb. 1 for sheet goods, March 1 for structural steel. By week's end Inland Steel, U.S. Steel and other companies had fallen in line behind Bethlehem, and Wheeling said it would shave down its 7% rise...
...banking system, it is trying to hold down the money stock by pushing up borrowing costs. Since the start of 1977, the prime rate on bank loans to business has risen from 6¼% to 7¾% in November. Okun's fear is that the board will lift interest rates high enough to discourage borrowing and cause a recession in 1979. Says he: "The Federal Reserve is on a collision course with the kind of expanding economy we have...