Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major reason for the price decline was that speculative fever began to cool as optimistic crop reports began rolling in. Rumors that the Arabs were about to lift their oil embargo against the U.S. also eased fears of uncontrollable inflation. The present prices, however, are still far higher than a year ago, and few experts are predicting any further substantial drop until the dimensions of this year's harvest are clearer, both in the U.S. and abroad. Rising costs of farm labor, fertilizer and machinery will also work against a further price drop...
Burns and Kalal were also impressed by the spectators. Ferris Mack, a freshman from Washington and Lee who didn't finish the race, talked about the lift he got from the girls who lined the streets in Wellesley...
...pedestal, then hurries off on a scooter. Two elderly women on a park bench gossip relentlessly at each other, pausing only to draw breath. A nanny waddles past, pushing a baby carriage and cooing at the unseen inhabitant, while an agonized dog-owner watches his best friend lift its leg over the ankles of a policeman. Gradually the park begins to throb with activity: a priest, a balloon man, a pair of lovers, a mother dragging two children at the end of either arm. More than a dozen characters seem to people the stage, although there is only...
...past six months or so, COLC has got many firms and industries, including autos, rubber and aluminum, to sign agreements to exercise restraint in pricing in exchange for being freed from formal control. If COLC vanishes, those agreements will no longer be legally binding, and the companies can lift prices at will...
Veterans Dave Cowens, John Havlicek and Jo Jo White scored 13 of Boston's 15 points in the last five minutes last night to lift the Celtics to a 100-97 victory over the Buffalo Braves and take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven National Basketball Association playoff series...