Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...items. Says Sensormatic President Ronald Assaf: "They're the ones who cause the real problems." Teen-agers and members of minority groups do their share of filching too, but not as much as had been thought. Says Assaf: "Not many teens shop in places where they could lift a $125 scarf...
...Supreme Court's vacillation can be seen in the various votes of Justice Harry Blackmun. In 1983 he cast the swing vote, agreeing with the majority to stay Stephens' execution. Then he reversed himself three weeks ago, voting with the new majority to lift the stay. Then, just hours before Stephens was executed last week, Blackmun reversed himself once again, voting that a stay should be reimposed because of the unresolved question of systematic racial bias...
...built cars were up 29% in the middle ten days of November from the same period a year ago. General Motors scored a 17% gain, Ford's sales rose nearly 50% and Chrysler's jumped 62%. The auto companies plan to lift their production by 15.5% in the first quarter of 1985, compared with the last three months of this year...
...days after Discovery's lift-off from Cape Canaveral, a rival space vehicle blasted into the heavens on a mission that was considerably less acclaimed but, for the commercial future of the U.S. space program, ominously successful. Ariane V 11, the latest effort of the eleven-nation European Space Agency, rose from the space center at Kourou in the equatorial jungles of French Guiana to an orbit of 22,300 miles above the equator. There the rocket deposited two communications satellites. One of them, like many of Ariane's payloads, was sponsored by an international communications agency...
...surge did little to unseat blacks and Hispanics, who are overwhelmingly Democratic. There were 33 blacks and eight Hispanics on the House ballots, 27 of them incumbents. Although one black had been defeated in an Indiana primary, reducing their membership in the House to 20, blacks had hoped to lift the total back to 21 with a victory by Democrat Robert Clark, 55, in Mississippi. As in 1982, however, Clark lost to Webb Franklin, 42, a former circuit-court judge. This was despite a redistricting that placed blacks in the majority. The number of Hispanics in the House remained...