Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosalynn was increasingly taxed - both mentally and physically. In Quito, the 9,350-ft.-high capital of Ecuador, she needed two doses of oxygen to get over the effects of the altitude. She calmly informed members of the ruling military triumvirate that the U.S. was not likely to lift trade restrictions imposed after Ecuador raised its oil prices along with other OPEC members...
...revolt to the Yard. Then he met his roommates--an obnoxious Jewish debater from the area who didn't know a thing about Cesar Chavez but knew Ralph Nader was gong to make Aermica safe for democracy, and a completely apolitical Indian chemistry major from Pennsylvania who liked to lift weights and root for the bad guyson the T.V. wrestling matches. The wind may not have gone all the way out of Paco's sails, but the tide was sure as hell running against...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
...Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, and Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister, the U.S. agreed to stop opposing Viet Nam's admission to the U.N., which Washington has blocked three times since 1975. The U.S. also promised to lift a trade embargo after diplomatic relations are established. For their part, the Vietnamese pledged to intensify their efforts to provide information about the estimated 2,527 Americans still unaccounted for in the war. Although Hanoi pressed for U.S. economic aid, it received no assurances from the American negotiators. Late last...
...first time. The most spectacular rise was that of Norin, a Florida insurance and real estate company, which rocketed out of nowhere to No. 324 on a 1,928% increase in its sales, to $586 million. Though Norin made some gains in its basic business, it got its biggest lift by acquiring Maple Leaf Mills, one of Canada's largest food and grain processors...