Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small team, and the advantage is with a bigger team on a day like this," the Crimson mentor noted. "It's a more physical game in the rain--it's difficult just to be able to lift your feet up and down...
...with a vision, a voice, and line after line of verse that has set America on edge, has caused us to lift our heads up high and shout, "Yes, we're from New Jersey...
...July the Reserve board voted to lift the 1985 M1 limit slightly, to 8%, but to restore the 7% target in 1986. If the board is to meet those goals, it will soon have to rein in the money supply. Martin and Seger voted against the 7% target for 1986, arguing that faster money growth may be necessary for an economic rebound. The Volcker-led majority, however, was worried that too much money would lead to an acceleration of inflation...
Nearly everybody, including Grimm, agrees that raising the entire Titanic would be both technologically and financially unthinkable. Yet at least one salvage expert may be ready to give it a try. He is Britain's John Pierce, who designed an array of inflatable canvas bags to lift the Rainbow Warrior from the bottom of Auckland harbor in New Zealand after it had been sunk by a terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing...
Gangs of Gypsy youngsters menace Paris Metro riders by picking them clean in seconds, and purse snatchers on mopeds plague the Champs-Elysees. Says Paris Police Judiciaire Commissioner Claude Bard: "Paris is as bad as Rome, if not worse." Indeed, while scooter-riding bandits in the Italian capital still lift bags from foreign shoulders along the Via Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering...