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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fans sat stunned, unable and unwilling to believe their eyes. Last year provided the supreme indignity: in a hockey civil war replete with variable loyalties and immense sociological implications, the 33rd St. and 8th Ave. Rangers shocked the Islanders and plunged their fans into a funk that did not lift until very, very recently...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The I's Have It--So Far | 5/13/1980 | See Source »

...Schwab) and a marching band that goes swirling into the aisles. David Mitchell's set, festooned with primary colors, is a child's dream of the Big Top. While Michael Stewart has written prosaic nuts-and-bolts lyrics, Cy Coleman's music has a hang-gliding lift to it, and one lovely ballad, The Colors of My Life, will probably take off for a life of its own. As for Joe Layton's staging, the blinding speed of his now-you-see-it-now-you-don't direction makes playgoers forget that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Circus Hoopla | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Erik Widmer, dean of student life, said he and university President Howard Swearer decided to lift the probation after a committee investigating the incident reported that "there was no incident of sexual coercion or debasement" at the March 8 house party...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Probation Lifted from Fraternity | 4/26/1980 | See Source »

...regular season produced a modicum of excitement, with few pretensions to drama. The Celtics surged as Washington faded, the Western race heated up, Milwaukee evoked angst and the league's complexion received a much-needed face-lift...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A National Bore | 4/25/1980 | See Source »

...least part of Japan's robust glow comes not so much from genuine growth as from enormous and potentially inflationary deficit spending, which last year totaled 40% of the government's budget. The deficits were designed to lift domestic demand for Japanese products as the slowing world economy and increasing protectionist sentiments abroad began to cut into exports. In 1980 real growth is expected to slide from a current annual rate of 6.3% to 4.8%, and inflation to rise from 4.5% to at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism in Japan | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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