Word: liftings
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There is far more than a simple redefinition of political equality in the shaping of women's push into U.S leadership. The old American way of work operates now in a world of foreign pressures, where the heavy-labor jobs, the lift-and-heave jobs, are being taken over by the Third World. Those are men's jobs being undermined. But women seek their share of the desk and managerial jobs. Their increasing share reduces men's share. If, as in England, the permanent jobs lost are usually so-called men's jobs...
...idea of a circular escalator seems simple enough, but the design problems were daunting. The challenge was to lift passengers up and around without tilting them, throwing them against a rail or squeezing them off the tread as it narrows while going around the turn. Complicating the problem were some basic laws of physics that say the two handrails must move at different speeds to match the motion of the twisting stairs. Still, the results look surprisingly conventional: a conglomeration of chains and sprockets and comblike metal plates ingeniously designed, machined and arrayed. The finished escalators will move...
When the trial opened last week in St. George's, the island's capital, the proceedings were livery indeed. At one point, Phyllis Coard collapsed on the courtroom floor. As four policewomen struggled to lift the defendant, she shouted, "I've been on a hunger strike for six weeks!" Observed the trial judge dryly: "I must say, her voice doesn't sound like an ill person's." Other defendants, when asked to enter their pleas, loudly challenged the tribunal's legitimacy, and several said they refused to be tried while Grenada was under foreign...
Regardless of who wins, the market can look forward to another lift right after the election, according to Gerald Hobbs and William Riley, professors of statistics and finance at West Virginia University. In a study of election-time stock behavior since 1900, they found that the market usually rises in the days just after the presidential voting. Their explanation: the uncertainty of the campaign is over. That temporary spurt generally lasts longer if the Republican candidate wins. Should investors want to rely on historical patterns, counsel Hobbs and Riley, they should sell on the 27th day after a Reagan victory...
...swirled about by wind and water and partly tossed back into space. By better understanding the dynamics of solar radiation, scientists hope they may be able to predict world weather patterns more accurately. But when Ride applied her expertise with the Canadian-built 50-ft. remote manipulator arm to lift the ERBS from the shuttle's cargo bay, two 12-ft. by 8-ft. solar panels on the satellite refused to unfold. After fruitlessly shaking the cylindrical ERBS with the arm, the astronauts turned the shuttle toward the sun, until the frozen latches on the panels loosened up. Within...