Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though no one can know exactly how big the bonanza might be, computers are at work printing out projections. American Express Bank esti mates that $25 oil would lift G.N.P. growth in the 24 industrial nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from the 1½% currently projected for this year to 2¼%. That would result in additional production of goods and services worth $55 billion. At the same time, inflation could slow from the expected 6¾% to 5¾%, and that would help lower interest rates...
...Millicom, which is involved with the cellular technology that threatens to put a phone in every car. Millicom sold for less than $2 a share a year ago, but it rose smartly. Then last month the brokerage firm of Dean Witter Reynolds began to recommend it. That helped lift the shares to 22 before the brokerage house learned that it could not legally solicit sales in some states. With that, Dean Witter brokers stopped pushing Millicom, and the stock dropped. Millicom still managed to end 1982 at 15, up 728%. Last week Dean Witter announced that it would make...
...Coins, stamps and Chinese ceramics declined in value. Interestingly, precious metals did not. By the end of the year, gold was selling for $448 per oz., up from $400, and silver had risen from $8.25 to $10.90. One explanation: fears among some investors that efforts to lift the world economy out of recession will set off a round of hyperinflation...
...footage slows down, and the movie--for all intents and purposes--grinds to a halt. DePalma seems to have experimented with various camera angles and various splicing techniques, as if this film was practice. Although this filming is unusual experimentation with form, it fails in its inability to lift and carry the action...
...step forward, one step back. It was that kind of week for James Watt, President Reagan's controversial Secretary of the Interior. First, his department announced plans to lift wilderness protection from more than 805,000 federally owned acres in ten Western and Southwestern states, possibly opening the land to various forms of development. Then, in a move that some conservationists dismissed as more symbol than substance, he laid to rest his longstanding intention of issuing oil and gas leases in existing wilderness areas...