Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communications services in Canada, Britain and Indonesia. Many companies turned to Arianespace, the French-led European space consortium, which quickly booked all its flights through 1989. But the European concern could not take on all of NASA's customers, partly because it can handle only about ten lift- offs a year at its launch pads in the jungles of French Guiana...
...Sporting Life" is a quick succession of aspects of the wide world of competition. In this expertly choreographed sequence, the satiric targets include the Miss America pageant, the Olympic, and ski-lift conversation. Yes, the targets are obvious and very easy, but thankfully so are the laughs...
...these strikers are still being unjustly treated and deserve more attention than just an occasional news story or editorial. A visit to these picket lines by a presidential candidate would do more than just lift morale...
Harvard basketball fans certainly should. They also remember the date February 22, 1985--when one Perry Bromwell nailed an 18-ft. Jump shot with just four second remaining to lift the Penn Quakers to a 53-51 victory over the Crimson...
...reached working age is becoming a thing of the past. In the 1990s fewer people -- those born during the baby bust, the period of low birth rates that began in 1965 -- will be looking for jobs. Says the Domestic Policy Council: "The baby bust will make it easier to lift America's welfare recipients up from dependency. Plenty of jobs will be available in the private economy, and at wage rates that will provide an adequate living. Welfare recipients will be able to fill those jobs, provided they have both the motivation and the proper preparation...