Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plate glass windows as it went. "There was debris coming out of the top of the funnel," said Fireman Paul Gorby. "It was like a big runaway locomotive." The tornado peeled off the center's roof like a box top; rescue workers had to bring in a crane to lift fallen steel , girders that were pinning bodies below. Two people died and 30 were injured...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo gave the movement a big lift last week, proposing a bill that would require the state's pension funds to withdraw more than $4 billion now invested in stocks of U.S. companies that do business in South Africa. To help fund managers prevent sudden losses, the divestment would be phased in over five years and would initially not apply to companies that comply with a set of progressive employment practices known as the Sullivan principles...
Baldrige also spent two days in talks with Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev. Although the Commerce Secretary did not discuss Soviet purchases of strategic materials or technology, he agreed to ask Congress to lift a 34-year-old ban on certain Soviet fur imports. The Soviets agreed to ask their trade organizations not to discriminate against U.S. companies. Though the talks are not expected to bring about a major increase in U.S.-Soviet trade, which now amounts to some $3.85 billion a year, Baldrige called them "a solid start...
...lottery, New York Knicks Executive Vice President Dave DeBusschere called for heavenly assistance. "I said some prayers," he recalled. "And then I thought, I'll be a little selfish and ask for Patrick Ewing." The prayers were answered. Now the faltering Knicks are praying that the indomitable center will lift them back to their glory days of more than ten years ago. Even if he does, Ewing will be a mixed blessing: he will probably cost upwards of $1 million a year in salary, money that he may need to support a growing family. Days after the lottery, his high...
Another President who delivered an equally big and incendiary no a few years back was also right. Jerry Ford in 1975 refused to use federal credit to help lift New York out of its fiscal mess until the city took its own action. The New York Daily News headline for that rebuff is famous: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. New York did not drop dead. Instead it got mad, went to work and devised its own rescue, which a few weeks ago prompted Mayor Ed Koch to crow about New York's financial condition: "We are healthier than any other...