Word: lift
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This ambitious undertaking would certainly provide an immediate lift to the economy, no bad thing when the general prognosis is for anemic growth through the middle of the decade. In the long run, the economy's basic foundation would get a second life. "The economy needs a shot in the arm, and these things need to be done," says economic forecaster David Levy...
...there we were again last month, with the economy every bit as gloomy -- except that rather than having to invade anyone to lift our spirits (top choice: Louisiana), we may have accomplished much the same thing through the efforts of the Federal Reserve. When the Fed cut the discount rate a full point, to 3 1/2%, it was like pounding an economy in cardiac arrest. Suddenly, its little eyelids began to flutter, its stock market leaped out of bed, and people began to realize this might be one darn good time to go buy a house, at least in some...
...recent weeks the MIA industry has been given a new lift by retired Major General Oleg Kalugin, former head of counterintelligence for the KGB, who was forced to resign in 1990 after he became one of the agency's most truculent public critics. Kalugin has told several U.S. news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News, that the KGB questioned "at least" three American POWs in Vietnam in 1978, five years after Hanoi said it had returned all living prisoners...
That also should enable Yeltsin finally to lift controls on prices and "privatize" state-owned property. To many Russians, that prospect is as appetizing as a large dose of castor oil. With everything in short supply, it is not surprising that the collectivist ethic has given way to the principle of every man for himself...
Mexico moves to lift anticlerical laws...