Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmers have a lot to gain from the oil-price slump. Agriculture absorbs 3% of all energy consumed in the U.S. each year--for diesel- and gasoline-powered machinery, for petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, and for pumps used to lift and distribute irrigation water. With spring planting on the way, the timing of the oil-price collapse is, from the farmer's point of view, well- nigh perfect. Diesel-fuel prices have dropped so far this year by anywhere from 23 cents to 30 cents per gal., to as low as 50 cents. Costs are expected to come down...
...that restriction was imposed, others were unraveling. The courts continued last week to lift the banning and detention orders that have prevented hundreds of activists from speaking out or attending public meetings. More than 20 people, including Black Community Leaders Mkhuseli Jack and Henry Fazzie, have had such orders rescinded by courts in the past month on the ground that the government had failed to cite adequate reasons to justify them legally. While some, like Jack and Fazzie, had been banned only recently, last week Rowley Arenstein, a white former Communist leader, was "unbanned" for the first time...
Though the lock still hangs on the Plympton St. gate to the garden, giving the illusion that it is locked, students may lift the latch and walk...
...which put the U.S. program out of commission for a year or more. The shuttle's hiatus leaves a big opening in the launching market, a business worth at least $500 million a year. Between now and 1990, an estimated 60 commercial satellites will need a lift into orbit. While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration struggled last month to find out the cause of the shuttle disaster, an Ariane launch successfully put two satellites into orbit. Before the accident, the shuttle held two-thirds of the market and Ariane had the rest...
Nonetheless, many white South Africans hailed the decision to lift the emergency decree as a conciliatory move on the part of the government. It was, said Johan Wilson, president of the Federated Chamber of Industries, "a further concrete step to normalize the situation inside South Africa by reducing tensions in the townships and on the factory floor." The Reagan Administration also welcomed the action. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "We have long urged that the state of emergency be lifted as one of the steps the South African government must take to create conditions in which it would...