Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written dozens of space stories on subjects as diverse as Skylab, extraterrestrial intelligence and proposals to colonize the moon. "Space exploration," Golden says, "shows human beings in their finest moments-adventuring, dreaming and looking to the future." As we went to press three days before the Russian and American lift-offs, all hands here hoped that the mission would take place on schedule-and safely...
...rises that all automakers have been talking about as necessary to recoup rising costs of materials and labor. A 6% increase would amount to $335 per car; added to average rises of $1,000 per car over the past two model years, it surely would not help lift auto sales out of the doldrums...
...Wasinngton and Moscow most as the final countdown approached was its public relations and propaganda possibilities in an era of wary detente between the two superpowers. Local officials happily announced that the Apollo launch would draw 1 minion visitors and some 3,000 journalists to Cape Canaveral-the largest lift-off turnout there since Apollo 17 blasted off on the last manned flight to the moon in 1972. With active encouragement from the Administration, the three major U.S. television networks laid plans to pool their resources for an unprecedented total of more than 30 hours of live coverage, beginning with...
Bringing it down faster might well require surges in demand that would kick up a new, probably more devastating inflation. There is a gnawing fear that capitalism has no way to cure inflation except deep recession, and that any concerted attempt to lift an economy rapidly out of recession will only fan inflation...
...Gandhi keeps her promise to lift the emergency soon, her "preemptive strike" against her opponents may be rather quickly forgotten-if not forgiven. Theoretically, she will need parliamentary approval to extend her extraordinary powers beyond two months-something that would not be difficult since her Congress Party holds 355 of the 516 seats in Parliament. The question, though, is whether the people of India, who have considerable pride in their nation's democratic traditions, would accept a new political system that would allow her to keep so much power in her own hands...