Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return of senior co-caption Bob Gaudet, perhaps the ECAC's finest goaltender, will give Dartmouth an emotional lift. The Saugus, Mass., native stretched ligaments in his left knee in a November 24 contest against Clarkson, and has not played since. Despite continued soreness, he is scheduled to start tonight...
...Faculty committee members also recruited Fernandez for some security guard work. "I'm five-foot ten, but look a lot taller with the Afro, and I look like I lift weights," he says. So the committee placed Fernandez outside the doors of Holyoke Center, barring the way when SDS attempted to storm the building...
Washington even sets the price of lift tickets in some ski areas in Colorado. And it is Washington that now plans to install in Utah and Nevada the $33.8 billion MX missile system, the biggest public works project in history...
...high case of government corruption in a country that takes pride in its standards of integrity in public office. As a prelude to a formal indictment, Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir last week asked Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to lift the parliamentary immunity of Aharon Abuhatzeira, 42, the Minister of Religious Affairs. That will clear the way for Zamir to press bribery charges against Abuhatzeira; if convicted, he could be sentenced to seven years in prison...
...there is more. Care for the afflicted? Quadriplegics may some day use spoken commands to order robot servants to do their bidding. Other designers are working on a robot that could gently lift up a bedridden patient, while a nurse changes his sheets, and tuck him back into bed. M.I.T. Computer Scientist Marvin Minsky visualizes a day, about 20 or 25 years from now, when a surgeon will be able to slip on a pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles...