Word: lift
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...spokesman at New York's Kennedy Airport was incredulous that everyone on this gutted plane had survived. The fire aboard TWA Flight 843 erupted in the rear of the L-1011 jumbo jet as it was about to lift off for San Francisco with 292 aboard. The pilot aborted the takeoff, the plane crashed through a runway barrier and the crew chuted out the passengers with expert precision; 55 people suffered minor injuries. Other air travelers were not so lucky. A Thai jetliner carrying 113 people reportedly slammed into a Himalayan mountainside as it approached Katmandu, Nepal; all are feared...
Supporters see it as the best hope for escape from economic stagnation, a boost for trade and investment, a boon for employment, a lift for standards of living. Critics counter that it will strike a mortal blow at entire sectors of U.S., Canadian and Mexican industry, idling tens of thousands of workers whose jobs will move elsewhere, never to return. Europeans and Asians fret that it may accelerate a division of the world into giant protectionist trading blocs lurking behind new walls of tariffs and bureaucratic restrictions...
...Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight than we can." Says Jonathan Smith, 31, a two-time Olympic medalist who is pushing for a third prize this summer: "The volume and amount of weight we're lifting is two to three times more than I did before...
Even before it meets, the convention is stirring nostalgic memories of 1976, when the Democrats met in New York to nominate another Southern Governor, Jimmy Carter, who went on to win, while the city, still on the brink of bankruptcy, got a huge lift in morale out of its successful performance as host. As some New Yorkers might phrase it in the native tongue, they should both be so lucky twice. (See related stories beginning on page...
Frustrated by the International Whaling Commission's reluctance to lift a six- year-old ban on hunting minke whales they say have since become sufficiently plentiful, Iceland has quit the IWC and Norway is defiant. Environmentalists fear that could lead to hunting other, more endangered whales...