Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eastern flank of NATO, because of the dispute between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, does worry us very greatly. As you know, we have been working very hard to try and assist the parties in their negotiations, and one of the things we sought to do is to lift the arms embargo imposed by the Congress because we don't believe that Turkey will really negotiate under the threat of the continuation of the arms embargo. If that is lifted, the prospects for meaningful negotiations between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots are good...
...COOPERATION. In Moscow, sidewalk traffic tapered off noticeably before the Soyuz launch, the first Soviet launch its citizens have ever been shown live, as shoppers gathered before TV sets or display in stores and shopwindows all over the city. The crowds were quietly attentive during the countdown, and a lift-off applauded politely and called out "Molodyets, molodyets"-a Russian expression that is roughly equivalent to the American cheer "That's the way, baby...
...recovery. Housing starts, after a spurt in May, slumped back in June to a moribund pace of little more than a million a year. Corporate spending on new plant and equipment remains low, and the unemployment rate is still a worrisome 8.6%. Interest rates, whose recent declines had helped lift the economy, have begun to rise again...
Most remarkable of all, for the first time Soviet citizens will be able to see a Soyuz lift-off live on then-home TV sets. Soviet and American planners worked for months to draw up a mission sequence (see chart) that would allow live coverage of the main ASTP events-including the Thursday docking and the Stafford-Leonov press conference on Friday-during daylight hours so as to reach the largest possible worldwide TV audience...
...describe how he was "slain in the Spirit" and experienced the event as "going down into a bath full of goose feathers." After such tales come bleaker stories and pleas for spiritual help from listeners who have written letters or who call into a busy bank of phones. "We lift before you the prayer requests in the name of Jesus," intones the M.C., raising aloft a batch of letters. "We rebuke Satan in the name of Jesus...