Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home in the U.S., G.M.'s bread-and-butter car, the standard-sized Chevrolet, was outselling the rival Ford Galaxie by nearly 2 to 1. In Germany, G.M.'s Opel subsidiary was gearing up for fall introduction of its new Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this was, General Motors' precise, silver...
...likely to hit at least 6,700,000 cars-a figure second only to 1955's record 7,170,000. Since the auto industry and its suppliers account for one out of every 19 jobs in the nation, such a surge in car sales should give a significant lift to the whole economy...
...institute's specialists take a week to evaluate each patient in terms of physical potential, language disability, and medical and psychiatric problems before any treatment starts. Then the first physical therapy is begun: a therapist asks the patient to lift his arm as if to put a spoon to his mouth. Most likely he cannot complete the movement, so the therapist (usually a woman) gently helps him. At times she gets him to push his hand against hers to strengthen the muscles. Hemiplegic patients stay at the institute an average of three to six months. "By the time they...
...Fiberglass may give pole vaulters nothing more than a mental lift over their aluminum-and steel-equipped competitors. But it does seem to have something. At the Mount San Antonio Relays at Walnut, Calif., Marine 1st Lieut. David Tork, 27, who had never before topped 15 ft. 8¼ in., easily cleared 15 ft. 7 in., then asked for the bar to be put up to 16 ft. 2 in. On his second try he sailed over to beat John Uelses' month-old world record...
Behind the customary bread-and-butter issues lay disputes so stubborn that the siege in the two cities seemed unlikely to lift soon. In Detroit, the unions were crying "lockout" at the unstruck but silent News. In Minneapolis, the mailers' union held fast to their right, under challenge by the publishers, to tie newspapers into bundles before loading onto trucks...