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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East, the Black American Law Students Association, like other agencies of the Afro-American elites, have enough problems here at home to engage their energies and resources--problems relating to persistent racism in American life, social justice for the poor in the Reaganite era, and cultural up lift for the anomie segments of the Black lower class. But such indifference by Afro-American elites to the needs and concerns of Third World communities like the Palestinians is moral unacceptable and politically cowardice. I therefore welcome BALSA's decision to consider a resolution endorsing the PLO as the legitimate represntative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALSA | 3/24/1983 | See Source »

...burly Chancellor had successfully campaigned on a platform of traditional West German values: hard work, austerity and loyalty to the "fatherland." His job now will be to translate those verities into a painful economic program that Kohl insists will lift the country out of its worst slump since World War II. At the same time, he must thread his way through a political minefield in supporting NATO's 1979 decision to install 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. Unless there is a breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva, the installation is to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Getting Down to Work | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson squad definitely needed a lift. After 20 minutes RPI held a one-goal advantage, and more importantly the Engineers' forechecking had effectively shut down Harvard's transition game. It was only Grant Blair's fine performance in the net that kept it as close...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Three Unlikely Heroes | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...while the "usual" sources got their act together by the end of the contest, it was the unlikely trio of Busconi, Burke and Wheeler--a group that scored a total of eight goals during the regular season--that gave the Crimson the lift when it needed it the most...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Three Unlikely Heroes | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Boston University (BU) official yesterday continued to lift through charred remnants of Sunday night's fire which ravaged four floors of a Bay State Rd. building...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: BU Tallies Blaze Losses: No Cause Announced Yet | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

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