Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raise prices another 10.4% on Jan. 1 and yet a further 5% next July 1. But the Saudis, backed by the United Arab Emirates, announced that they would post only a 5% increase for the whole year. Moreover, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani declared that Saudi Arabia would lift its self-imposed production limit of 8.5 million bbl. a day and pump out as much oil as the world market would take (the country can now produce 11.8 million bbl. daily). That was a clear attempt to undermine the higher prices decreed by its OPEC partners, and the cocky...
...lift the grog at hearty feasts...
...anticipation of the lift of the housing freeze imposed by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life last April, names of students will be accepted until January 7, Eleanor Marshall, assistant to the deans of the College for Housing, said yesterday...
...into a complicated ritual. When you were going to bring him a spoon, for example, the spoon handle had to be wrapped in Kleenex and Scotch-taped. Then you would take another piece of Kleenex to hold the Kleenex wrapping, so the wrapping wouldn't get contaminated. He would lift the wrapped spoon off the piece of Kleenex you were holding it with...
...story is achingly familiar, and though Stallone has a certain power, he is certainly not the subtlest actor to crawl out from under Marlon's overcoat. But the picture goes most wrong in the conceit it employs to lift Rocky out of the clubs and into the big arena for his title challenge. An Ali-like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids...