Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House could not have been more delighted. A generally vigorous economy, low inflation and a decrease in unemployment helped lift 1.8 million Americans out of poverty last year--or at least out of the category that the Census Bureau defines as poverty, which is annual cash income of less than $10,609 for a family of four. The bureau reported last week that the proportion of needy Americans decreased by nearly a full percentage point, to 14.4%, the first reduction after five years of steady increases. Said Gordon W. Green Jr., assistant chief of the Census Bureau's population...
Once again, there was an air of expectancy. Under intense pressure, at home and abroad, to lift the gloom created by his refusal a week earlier to indicate any path away from apartheid, P.W. Botha had a chance to clarify his intentions. Some 4,000 young people at the University of Pretoria greeted South Africa's State President with cheers, whistles and applause. But Botha did not budge. Portraying himself as a moderate operating between "radical Communist forces" and "conservative elements who shout murder and fire," he delivered much the same message as he had in his speech to members...
...screens. But reverberations of the crisis are likely to echo through the U.S., the Middle East and the world for months to come, affecting matters ranging from Israeli Cabinet decisions to congressional votes on the American budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong hawk they had so long feared. Reagan's image as a statesman was further burnished last week by Moscow's agreement to a summit conference between...
...search for answers continued, tightened security arrangements went into effect at airports around the world. In Athens, the lift-off point for the hijacked TWA Flight 847, reinforced police detachments were stationed at check-in counters, and airport personnel conducted frequent hand searches of luggage. In West Germany, police used bomb-sniffing dogs to patrol terminals, and some passengers were asked to identify their luggage on the tarmac before it was loaded. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration asked airlines to put into effect special procedures that included holding cargo for 24 hrs. before shipment and discontinuing curbside baggage...
...blue jalopy creaks and groans, its bumper nearly scraping the roadway of the Good Neighbor Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. The driver has given 29 fellow Mexicans a free lift south because he can bring five cartons of cigarettes into Mexico for each passenger in his car. Next comes a pickup carrying six teenage Mexican girls, all trim in their red vests. They are returning to Juarez from their classes at a Roman Catholic girls school in El Paso. Behind them is Yolanda Rivas, who is heading home after an eight-hour shift...