Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingenuity of consumers and lenders has thwarted the Federal Reserve Board's efforts to tighten credit. Money is easily available, in large part because inflation has motivated people to discover new ways to lift borrowing and spending power. Anyone with a decent credit rating can get not just one Master Charge or Visa card but several of every kind-each from a competing bank, and each with credit lines that offer the opportunity to draw cash advances of up to several thousand dollars a month...
...psychological funk has bottomed out and that under the spur of events in Iran and Afghanistan, a sense of direction and purpose is finally beginning to emanate from Washington. Says Howard Stein, chairman of the Dreyfus Fund, a leading mutual fund investment firm: "There is always a psychological lift from a crisis, and people rise to the occasion." Harold Ehrlich, chairman of the Bernstein-Macaulay investment advisory service, cites a spreading conviction that "the country is moving again, and that means more inflation, more income, more corporate profits and higher stock values...
...lived in perfect harmony. During the day they all worked at their respective jungle chores. But in the evening, they would gather at the community watering hole, for this was the source of their energy. The elephant's job was to explore strange jungles, move huge boulders and lift great trees in a constant search for new watering holes. But even so, the other animals were resentful because ... it looked like he consumed too much. It didn't occur to them that his job required someone his size ... and that his size required comparable nourishment. The elephant tried...
...indispensable requirement for the U.S. to lift the embargo. In addition, our two countries should cooperate in assistance to the Third World. We have a common cause there not a conflict. We are happy when the U.S. offers economic aid without conditions, of course...
...center of the orchestra can be removed (manually) and placed on bleachers on the regular stage. Giant plates under the right and left orchestra sections swivel those seats around so that they now face each other over an intervening gap. That gap is filled when hydraulic jackets lift a new stage floor. The result is a circle-in-the-square, with seats on all four sides. For students of theater, this double capability is particularly valuable: they can learn about the effects of space and location as applied to different sorts of plays...