Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though its impact was muted in the East, the California result gave Hart an important lift, at least delaying any concession that Mondale had the nomination wrapped up. Said Hart: "Welcome to overtime." He declared his campaign "must go forward, and we will." Oliver Henkel, Hart's campaign manager, insisted that "Mondale's claims of 2,008 delegates are bravado. He's still in the 1,800s by our best counts." David Mixner, a key Hart strategist in California, argued that even if Mondale winds up 200 votes over a majority by convention time, "it's a slim margin...
Giving cancer patients a lift on the company plane...
...meantime, Saudi Arabia is trying to exert some influence over Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who began the tanker attacks earlier this year as a way of forcing Khomeini to enter into peace negotiations. But Saddam Hussein will not lift his siege of Iran as long as Khomeini seems set on toppling Iraq's government...
Despite generally poor weather this spring, sales rose 25.3% during the first three months of 1984, and March was the best month in nearly six years. Executives say that business is getting a lift from baby boomers who now have children of their own and want an inexpensive means of travel. They tout a University of Michigan study indicating that 40% of households surveyed plan to buy or use a recreational vehicle over the next three years...
...city's 7.6-mile "Bay-to-Breakers" road race. "I feel sure that she is experiencing the physiological impulses of pain," says Levine. "When you push her, she'll admit that there are certain things she tends not to do; for instance, she can't lift big bundles of clothing any more." But, he says, she refuses to use the word pain...