Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Precisely on schedule at 11:23, Petersen started the B-52's eight engines, and 6623 taxied to her place as the third plane in a three-bomber flight. It took 45 agonizingly long seconds to lift her 500,000 Ibs. into the air. "I'm scared every time we get one of these machines off the ground," said Czarkovski, with cheerful candor. The three B-52Ds climbed slowly to approximately 30,000 feet and set a course for North Viet Nam, 2,600 miles west. They flew strung out in a loose formation about two miles apart...
Crimson sophomore Harris Masterson provided Harvard with the lift it needed with a quick win over Dartmouth's respected co-captain Lloyd Ucko, 6-2,6-2. In a conservative match, Masterson rarely came up to net and forced mistakes on Ucko with consistent returns...
...subsidies, together with the higher prices that farmers are getting for their goods, especially meat, will lift farm income this year by 10% to 15%. Farmers argue that these increases are justified by their rising expenses for labor, machinery, fertilizer and taxes. Yet, as Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson observes, inflation also burdens other segments of society; if inflation is to be checked, farmers, too, must sacrifice...
...about the nuts, bolts and nails of building. After leaving, he borrowed $15 million from friends, got another $10 million from French banks and obtained building permits from local officials: "They would rather see a Frenchman get the contracts than some American giant," he says. Breguet also got a lift from French tax laws: to stimulate construction, the government has cut the corporate tax rate for new builders from 50% to 15% for their first seven years, provided they plow back their profits. Breguet formed his own construction outfit and builds only three to five models per project, keeping costs...
...Today's game really gave the players a lift. They played some good lacrosse in the second half, and now they realize that they can perform better than they have in previous matches," Coach Bruce Monro said...