Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other unprecedented gangster phenomenon is the Marielitos, who arrived in Florida in 1980 when Fidel Castro loaded up a refugee boat lift with the dregs of his prisons. The crime rate in Miami's Little Havana jumped an astonishing 83% within months of their arrival. The Marielitos have since fanned out around the country, and special police squads have been set up to deal with them in cities as varied as Las Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their...
...career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs in design. A case in point was Robert C. Manson, who grew obsessed with paper planes as a schoolboy and now, at 26, is a design engineer for Pratt & Whitney in Montreal. He explained: "What makes a paper plane fly well, the lift and balance and aerodynamic design, is what makes a real plane fly well. The principles are the same...
...year-old Mecir has beaten Timmy Connote and Sweden's Mats Wilander this Year and won $15,000 tournaments at Hamburg and Rotterdam, successes that have helped lift him to No. 10 in the world...
...lecture circuit, a hero within her newly adopted Republican Party and probably the most talked-about, albeit undeclared, electoral newcomer on the political scene. Though Kirkpatrick finds the glare of personal celebrity "very unexpected," she is passing up few opportunities to make the most of it. "I get a lift from speaking out," she says. "And there is just a dazzling array of opportunity...
...more than two decades, starting in 1948 in a Y.M.C.A. in Tulsa, Jones toyed with the idea of a better way to lift weights. While working out with % barbells, he concluded that they are inefficient because they do not correctly apply resistance during an exercise. After many of Jones' experimental rigs failed, the machine that he finally displayed at a Los Angeles fitness show in 1970 solved the problem by employing oddly shaped pulleys that keep a variable amount of resistance on a person's muscles during an entire exercise motion...