Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strikes. He instituted unlimited search and seizure, froze wages and prices (violators face summary arrest) and imposed press censorship. Motorists are routinely stopped at roadblocks and a Montevidean out for a stroll may be stopped several times with demands that he show his documents. Last July, Congress voted to lift the siege; Pacheco reimposed it a few hours later...
...students admitted under its terms were white-the sons and daughters of hardhats and the working poor. Even so, the number of black and Puerto Rican undergraduates enrolled full time in the-? university increased from 14% in 1969 to 23% this year. If nothing else, Open Admissions helped lift morale in the high schools whose failures made the program necessary in the first place. At Benjamin Franklin High in East Harlem two years ago only 10% of the seniors bothered to apply to CUNY, and only 1% were accepted. This year, as the students discovered that they stood a real...
...will take over many of Pan Am's day-to-day operations from Chairman Najeeb Halaby, but Halaby retains the title of chief executive. Thus, at least temporarily, "Jeeb" Halaby won a double victory over a board faction that reportedly had lost faith in his ability to lift Pan Am. Halaby not only retained primary authority but, to the disappointment of four group vice presidents whom Halaby had named last June, he also won approval of his own outside candidate for the presidency...
...last week that they had been told by their Soviet counterparts that Mars 2 and 3 will attempt to land instrumented packages on the Martian surface. That seemed to confirm speculation by U.S. space officials, who had anticipated a Russian landing attempt simply on the basis of the great lift-off weight of Mars 2 and 3 (about 10,000 lbs. each). If their landers work properly, the Russians will leapfrog ahead of the U.S. by at least four years in the exploration of Mars; NASA does not expect to launch its Viking landers before...
Some of the shorter numbers on the album are tight, but almost all of them seem to lack this energy that the Dead can inject into a song to lift it far above any version any other group could...