Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street analysts have begun boosting their profit estimates for Ford. They now think the automaker will ring up profits of $1 billion this year and could earn as much as $2.2 billion in 1984. Says Petersen: "These could be some very good years." The good outlook has helped lift Ford stock from last year's low of 16⅝ to last week's close at 55. "We must be doing something right," quips Poling...
...fashionable executive lift...
Monday's news gave Boston College rooters a lift as 1982 graduate Gary Sampson made the cuts, but it disheartened BU fans, whose 1983 captain Tom O'Regan was left out. Nine of ECAC Make the Grade Player College Bob Brooke Yale Rich Costello Providence Paul Guay Providence Mark Fusco Harvard Scott Fusco Harvard Kurt Kleinendorst Providence Ed Lee Princeton Bill Nichols Yale Gary Sampson Boston College
...that will delay its next flight, originally scheduled for mid-August, by about eight days. Moreover, the space agency will probably not be able to try out its new concrete shuttle landing strip at Kennedy until early next year. Reason: Challenger's next flight involves both a nighttime lift-off and landing, while on the mission after that, a refurbished Columbia, NASA'S other operational shuttle, will return to orbit carrying the heaviest single cargo to date, the 34,500-lb. European-built space lab. NASA does not want to risk a landing on the relatively narrow, marsh...
...evening in 1949, he offered a young Tory candidate named Margaret Roberts, then 23, a lift home from a political meeting. They were married two years later. By then, Denis had inherited the family business and considerable wealth. Maggie quit work, studied law, gave birth to twins, Carol and Mark, and began her ascent up the political ladder. Denis traveled extensively for Atlas and eventually sold the firm to Castrol, a lubricating-oil company, which was later taken over by Burmah Oil. He was a director of planning at a Burmah subsidiary when he retired in 1975, and still sits...