Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move steadied the sagging pound, it means that businessmen will have to pay more for loans to finance new plants and that consumers will pay more for installment purchases. Both consequences will tend to slow Britain's recovery from recession. Continental bankers predicted that the British action will lift the cost of short-term borrowing, but voiced guarded confidence that other European central banks will be able to resist retaliating with increases in their own much lower rates (3% in Switzerland and West Germany, 3½% in Italy and France, 4½% in The Netherlands...
...middle-aged woman, apparently from Women's Strike for Peace, who sat near me around midnight when the Marshals and paratroopers were getting particularly brutal. The soldiers in front of us raised their rifle-butts and started clubbing the people below. When I finally mustered enough courage to lift my head from between my knees where I had hidden it, I could see that the old girl had not budged. She sat there silently glaring at the troops...
...hydraulic lift system can completely change the tank's posture. From its top height of 87 in., it can hunker down on its tracks 19 in. to become a less inviting target; it can independently move its front, back or either of its sides to maneuver or to level itself on broken terrain. Its crew sits in air-conditioned comfort beneath a perch with 360° vision. It is at least two years from becoming operational, and it is clearly meant for a different kind of war than Viet Nam: it can withstand contamination from atomic, bacteriological or chemical...
Last week, with a lift from Wall Street, Intra Bank prepared to rise again. Under a deal worked out by the Manhattan investment-banking house of Kidder, Peabody & Co. and approved by the Lebanese government, the bank that was once the country's largest will be transformed into an international investment company. It will take over Intra's extensive business holdings-including thriving Middle East Airlines, Beirut's port and the Phoenicia Hotel, cement plants, warehouses, casinos, a French shipyard and valuable real estate on Paris' Champs Elysees-and try to recoup the bank...
...Lift the lid off an Anthro course and you'll find it squirming with dilletantes. The most exotic course this term is Anthro 112 (M. W. F. at 11). Introduction to Archaeology, which sets you up with everything but the invitation...