Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slight -- dedicated studies of unyielding scenes. But for every one that mumbles, there are a dozen that fit together a bracing new kind of declaration. His pictures have their own kind of muscle and spine, enough to push out the boundaries of art. And, for that matter, to lift the spirit...
...course, neither trade negotiations nor the declining dollar will do much to reduce imports and raise exports unless U.S. companies are willing to go after foreign competitors aggressively. Too many firms have used the weak dollar to lift prices and fatten profits rather than increase market share. During 1986 and 1987 many California wineries raised their prices by as much as 40% as imports from Europe became more expensive...
Aging stars and starlets of the world, take notice. For those planning a face- lift or tummy tuck, there is a place to hide away in dignity while the sutures and bruises are healing. Le Petit Ermitage in Beverly Hills is claiming an unusual specialty: luxury postoperative care for plastic-surgery patients. The hotel gives patients 24-hour nursing, skilled assistance with makeup, a limousine (with tinted-glass windows, naturally) for trips to the doctor, and gourmet food. Most important is the obsessive privacy -- all calls and visitors are screened. The rate: from $275 a night...
...miles). To achieve this, the M.I.T. team built a gearbox with a 2-to-3 ratio instead of using a standard bicycle chain to transmit pedal power to the 11-ft. propeller. In addition, Aeronautical Engineer Mark Drela designed an extra-thin wing that provides 30% more aerodynamic lift than stumpier conventional wings. The team chose a strong, lightweight graphite compound to mold the plane's hollow, dime-thick spine...
...home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp tureens and leech onto the faces of the revelers. Who on earth has possessed them...