Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swum across the Cunene River into South West Africa (Namibia). Many had made the perilous journey in fishing trawlers down the reef-ridden coast to Walvis Bay. Still others had crossed the desert in broken-down trucks and cars. Then, beginning five months ago, a massive air-and sea-lift returned them to their native country (TIME, Sept. 22). By last week 300,000 of them had arrived in Portugal -os retornados (the returned), the refugees who are the bitter harvest of Angola's civil...
...production and trade: U.S. President Gerald Ford, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Premier Aldo Moro. Their purpose: to discuss ways in which their countries can cooperate to lift the industrial world out of its worst business slump since the 1930s...
...even more important topic, U.S. officials are bracing themselves to resist some polite arm-twisting by the Europeans, who believe that a fast U.S. upturn would mightily help to lift other economies out of recession by increasing American demand for imports. Giscard, Schmidt and other leaders are particularly interested in persuading Ford to avoid any actions that might slow down the U.S. economy, such as letting New York City go bankrupt, cutting Government spending or allowing interest rates to rise. Their entreaties will get a sympathetic hearing from Ford, but nothing else. Administration policymakers assert that they cannot make critical...
...imminent. We are apt to lose the vision of how absolutely catastrophic nuclear war is." While there is no foolproof solution, the authors variously argue that the U.S. should greatly intensify its disarmament efforts, restrict its sales of nuclear reactors to unstable countries, and do its best to lift up poor societies...
Private economists think that the additional purchases will lift the food bills of U.S. consumers little if at all over the next twelve months-partly because the inflationary damage has already been done. The Agriculture Department has estimated that Russian grain buying would raise U.S. food bills 1.5% through 1976; Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME Board of Economists, figures that food prices next July will be 10% higher than last July, and that 3% to 4% of that will be the result of grain sales to the Soviets. But most of that rise is over; "the market already...