Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survive. (In fact, the durable cockroach evolved into something very similar to its current unpleasant form some 320 million years ago and apparently saw little need for further improvement.) An insect has a strong exterior skeleton and seems disproportionately powerful in relation to its size (an ant can lift 50 times its own weight). Its capacity for flight (most but not all insects can fly), attained about 100 million years before the first flying reptiles or birds, enables it to escape its enemies and range far and wide in search of food. The insect's small size frees it from...
This year fewer teachers will be employed by the Expos Department, and more will be employed on a full-time basis. A smaller faculty number, Byker said, produced a "lift in quality and commitment." Full-time instructors, he said, "willingly shoulder primary responsibility" for their classes...
Ford is more stolid and less articulate, but nobody can question his depth of experience. For all his widely publicized flaws and stumbles, .he has been a better President than he has been given credit for. His moderate-growth policies have helped lift the nation out of recession and curb inflation. With Henry Kissinger, he has handled foreign affairs capably, and he has restored a measure of trust and faith in the White House...
...finds that two episodes stand out. There was a night last September when Carter was stranded at a deserted airstrip in rural New Hampshire. The man who was to become his party's nominee waited in the silent dark 30 minutes for someone-anyone-to give him a lift. The other episode also occurred in that crucial early primary. Says Cloud: "A status test for reporters in the Carter campaign is whether or not you were on the 'white-knuckle' flight to Berlin, N.H.-pronounced BER-lin." A blizzard began as Carter was flying to speak there...
...biggest lift came from reports that ten of the richest nations, along with Switzerland and the Bank for International Settlements, had provided the Bank of England with a $5.3 billion line of credit-the largest single amount, $2 billion, coming from the U.S. The hefty bundle for Britain strengthened the central bank's ability to halt the sharp decline in sterling by buying up pounds in international markets. Any of the credits the bank uses must be repaid in six months...