Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NIGHT MOVES. Gene Hackman again, this time as a former football player turned private eye trying to graft the pieces of his own past onto a missing person's case. Arthur Perm's sometimes sober, sometimes pyrotechnic film is a rather too eager attempt to lift the genre into the realm of metaphysics...
...Lift License. Elsewhere, protests over malpractice problems have intensified. Doctors at St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, were prevented from operating when anaesthesiologists refused to take nonemergency cases. Patients in New York were apprehensive about a possible halt in medical treatment. Doctors in nine of the state's counties objected to a new state law aimed at solving their insurance problems and picketed in New York City to express their distress. Many physicians threatened to withhold all but emergency services beginning this week, despite the threats by at least one legislator of action to lift the licenses of those...
Some Middle East observers suggest that Sadat badly needs a lift right now. He has just about exhausted the political popularity that he accumulated in the October war and as a result of the disengagement negotiations that put Egyptian troops back on the east bank of the canal last year. There are considerable signs of unrest in Egypt. Workers rioted briefly in January and again in March to protest rising prices and food shortages, and students also demonstrated...
Second Push. Economists are betting that revived consumer spending for a broad variety of goods can get an upturn going without an immediate lift from the auto industry. The new question to which some are turning: What will those retailers and manufacturers who do benefit from rebate spending do with the money? If they in turn step up their outlays to order more goods and increase production, the economy will get a second upward push from the rebates during the last half of this year...
...fall. The oil producers have complained repeatedly that the shrinking value of the dollar, which is the chief currency used in oil transactions, has steadily reduced their ability to buy industrialized goods. Indeed, an unconfirmed press report out of Saudi Arabia last week asserted that OPEC was planning to lift oil prices by an unspecified amount as early as June. Washington officials discount the report, but they do not rule out an oil price boost of up to 15% in September...