Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is the next great thing I'm bringing to America: the nonsurgical face-lift...
...plan will feature a series of proposals aimed at lowering the tax burden on families earning between $12,500 and $30,000 a year. When poor families begin to make more money, they gradually lose benefits like housing subsidies and the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is designed to lift low-income workers out of poverty. As benefits are phased out and income taxes kick in, families in this income group often find themselves owing the government more than 50[cents] for each additional dollar they earn. "Some of the highest marginal tax rates are paid by people with...
FOOD FIGHT Roquefort cheese, truffles, chocolate bars, foie gras--the U.S. slapped 100% tariffs on these and other gourmet imports after Europe failed to lift its 10-year ban on American beef treated with growth hormones. The $116.8 million hit list, approved by the World Trade Organization, follows recent U.S. sanctions on items from coffee makers to cashmere over the E.U.'s discriminatory banana-import rules...
...home of Ec 10 lectures and first-year dining is one of the many buildings on campus getting a face-lift...
...major components of the project include moving books inside the library to other areas--one half-stack at a time--as well as using a 175-ft. sky crane to lift materials to Widener's center...