Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxes (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet, as Weaver points out, "if you start talking about putting on extra taxes, you may further accentuate the trend toward businesses leaving the central city and make its financial plight even worse than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse but to go hat in hand to the Federal Government, which has taken billions in taxes from them and returned only token sums...
...bugs were on the ground. The shot was delayed for 75 hours, while the kind of weather that Florida does not advertise locked the cape in clouds and rain. When the skies finally cleared, low pressure readings from a small nitrogen sphere that operates fuel valves delayed the lift-off for 31 hours; at one point, NASA control in Houston decided to scrub the mission, but technicians on the pad convinced Launch Director Kurt Debus that the pressure-though low-was sufficient to complete the mission. The rest was something for rocketeers to cheer about and a new eyeful...
...Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes prodded legislators to approve a new income tax to raise at least $180 million, lift that wealthy state above its current low rank (48th) in allotments for schools, roads and welfare...
...willing to make decisions. Rents and prices have more than doubled in five years. On the outskirts of Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk have grown up squalid Bidonvilles where thousands of Bedouins, attracted from the desert by the lure of the city, live in houses made of shipping crates and lift vans, vainly waiting for wealth to come to them. Meanwhile, the desert is slowly but inexorably encroaching on agricultural land abandoned in the rush to the cities, and Libya's precious agricultural production has dropped a staggering...
...make lift passes harder to pull off, resorts are stapling them four or five times onto a parka's zipper loop; by the time a light-fingered felon gets one off, all he has left is confetti...