Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) paid the price of failure: it disbanded. For the past three years, as their ranks were gradually rebuilt to a current level of 12,000, most federal air controllers have been without union representation. Now, just as the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to lift the last of the strike-related traffic restrictions from the airways, three groups of controllers in New York and the Washington area have petitioned to reunionize. Their complaints: overwork and FAA mismanagement, the same charges that led to the PATCO strike...
...April, after close consultation with key Congressmen, the Scowcroft commission issued a report recommending that the MX proceed as a short-term, stopgap measure, but that Midgetman be the principal ICBM of the future. The report recommended that the Administration, in order to make room for numerous Midgetman missiles, lift the 850-launcher ceiling that had been incorporated into the original START proposal at the behest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report questioned the Administration's longstanding but widely contested claim that American ICBMs were already vulnerable to pre-emptive attack from the more numerous Soviet ICBMs...
...neither run nor jump with the best athletes in the game, but he senses where to run and when to jump before any of the rest. In no other way does he seem sophisticated, but his basketball instincts are what lift the Boston team above its talent...
...informed delegate at the convention said that Kerry operatives made a conscious effort to lift connolly over the 15 percent cut-off on the second ballot Connolly had received a mere 8 percent on the first ballot and had to scramble for sympathy votes to keep him in the race...
...Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Two years ago, Janszen underwent surgery in Methodist Hospital to remove a malignant brain tumor, and she was returning from Houston after chemotherapy treatments. AMF Chairman W. Thomas York, who was in Houston for business meetings, was giving her a free lift on the company plane. The in-flight accommodations delighted Janszen. Said she: "Everyone was wonderful. They served us food and drinks and told us a little about their company...