Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that brings in profits for years, the investor may be even worse off. Since he has taken most of his tax write-offs in the first year or two, his share of the profits in later years will be taxable. Added to his nonmovie income, those profits can lift him from the 50% into the 70% tax bracket...
...characteristic swivels and slides may look improvised, but Tharp's dances are planned down to the final blink. At rehearsals she snapped out commands: "Soft elbows, make sure you lift your skirts, ladies, watch your eleves," or "That retard should last forever, Marianna-you have a full second." In Tharp time, a second is an eternity. Her dancers are given a lot to do in the space of a beat. In one seemingly continuous motion, swaying hips slink into wiggles that burst into furious pirouettes, then stop on a dime and reverse directions. It is as if Tharp worked...
...December, the player-to-be-named-later from the Ferguson Jenkins trade was still unnamed, and it was being conjectured that a minor league reliever would be going to Texas. "Hell, it might be me." Further, there is the winter draft to weather--a process where any team can lift a player from another team providing they move him up to a higher league. Brayton didn't get grabbed for either of these, but the most basic question still lies open: not knowing "at what level I'm being protected...
...obvious solution to the problem of steadily deteriorating mail service is to legalize private competition in first class mail, and to lift those restrictions which inhibit competition in other classes of mail. In many areas, private companies already compete successfully with the Postal Service in second- and third-class mail, despite those restrictions and despite the fact that the USPS charges less than cost on such mail, subsidizing it out of revenues from its biggest money-maker, first-class mail. In Congressional hearings in 1974, Congressman Philip Crane reported that the American Postal Corporation was delivering advertising to over half...
...Francisco's many old-line bistros offer stiff competition to any newcomer, but the three-month-old Bar of America is booming. Reason: an unintentional publicity lift from the Bank of America, which hit with a lawsuit accusing the bar's owners of confusing the public, thereby cashing in on the reputation of the nation's largest bank. Insists Jerry Dal Bozzo, one of five investors in the bar: "We just thought it was a good name...