Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-class mother in the West End emphasized the emotional security it confers: "To go back to the kind of medicine we had before, to that fear of illness, would be a nightmare." A lift operator, who has had nine operations, said: "I couldn't get on without it. Walk into a hospital and it doesn't cost you a penny. Ring up your doctor and he'll be there straight away...
...expansion, businessmen eagerly seek loans, and banks sell their investments to satisfy the demand. This sops up money from the stock market, sends stock prices down. As loans increase, money gets tighter and expansion slows. But, says Hughes, banks now plan to increase their investments. If that does not lift the market to new highs, "it will be the first time that it has not happened...
...Biggest news for sailors is Ratsey's refinement of the holed spinnaker, the Venturi. The sail has a series of horizontal slots across its top half. The breeze flowing through the slots shoots downward, thus by counteraction pushing the sail itself upward and providing extra lift. According to Designer George Ratsey, the slots also operate to reduce the "knockdown" or heeling effect on close reaches. Price: 25% higher than conventional spinnakers...
After 16 months of lonely quarantine, the Dominican Republic last week was welcomed back into the hemisphere's family of nations. Meeting in its marbled Washington headquarters, the Organization of American States voted 20 to 0 (Cuba abstaining) to lift the diplomatic boycott and partial trade embargo applied to late Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Caribbean fief...
...debilitating an inflation, may be in danger of creating an economy so stable that future growth would merely parallel the population curve. It may be rescued, as it has been in the past, by some new invention. But more realistically, many businessmen are now concluding that, to put new lift into the U.S. economy-and to create the new jobs the U.S. needs-business must turn increasingly to foreign markets. Automation should help to overcome foreign wage advantages by enhancing U.S. productivity. By most estimates, the U.S. is several years ahead of Europe in the automation race. It can remain...