Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end, though, the crisis began to lift. The Ohio legislature passed a plan to start reopening the thrifts, and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker publicly vowed to loan them emergency cash if needed. President Reagan played down the situation when asked about it during his White House press conference. "This is not a major threat to the banking system," he said. "There is no other problem of that kind anyplace else in the country that we're aware...
People who can't take vacations take it out on their hair explains Clinton Creasy, owner of hair salon Clinton's at 142 Mt. Auburn St. They Know spring is around the corner, and they know sping is around the corner and they need a lift. Adds Lynn Groff, manager of the Galeria's Diego At the Loft. Just like you don't wear the same clothes every day you constantly change your hair...
...tarmac. The convicts, handcuffed and clad in identical blue uniforms, were herded into the jet, which took off for the two- hour flight to Havana, Cuba. The 23 men were the first batch of Cubans to be sent back to the homeland they had fled in the Mariel boat lift of 1980. According to the Justice Department, all the deportees had committed serious crimes in Cuba or the U.S.: four of them were murderers, eight were robbers, three had engaged in drug dealing, and eight were guilty of assaults...
...United States Football League's scrappy new hero, Doug Flutie has been cast in the role of David trying to lift Goliath. After losing $100 million in its first two years, the league is pinning its latest hopes on the star power of Flutie, Boston College's miracle missile launcher and now New Jersey's , littlest General. But the U.S.F.L. started its third season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even...
...former head of the outlawed African National Congress rejected a conditional offer of freedom by the white minority government of Executive President P.W. Botha. Instead, Mandela, 67, seized the opportunity to outline his own demands. The South African government, he declared in his message, must renounce violence, dismantle apartheid, lift its ban on the A.N.C., free those imprisoned or banished for their opposition to apartheid, and guarantee black South Africans the right to choose their leaders...