Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TECHNICALLY it was a "working visit to the Western White House," but there was a leisurely air to President Nixon's stay in San Clemente last week. The California sun deepened the presidential tan, and his spirits seemed to lift by several degrees. He piloted his fringe-topped golf cart, dubbed Cushman One, through the cool morning mist from his home to the office complex. He left his desk in midafternoon to stroll on his beloved beach, where the waves break far out and roll in parallel white lines to the shore. After the long and tumultuous spring, Richard...
...these cinder blocks will vanish under a bill passed last week by the state senate that would lift all restrictions on ashes disposal. If the state assembly and Governor Reagan agree, Californians will soon be free to scatter the charred remains of friends from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, under a favorite ocotillo plant in the Mojave Desert, or even at a freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles...
...laced with costs that are basically military. By conservative estimates, these allocations in the new budget come to $20 billion, raising the annual cost of defense to $91.8 billion. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, makes a much higher calculation; he figures that the tangential military costs lift defense spending to more than $106 billion...
Meany was just a bit overcritical. The commission does lack the power to accomplish much over the short term in reducing the pressures that lift prices. But it really aims at long-range solutions to a problem that is close to the root of inflation. The output per man-hour of the U.S. labor force has been sagging for two years; during the first quarter of this year, productivity actually fell at an annual rate of 0.6%. With wages and fringe benefits climbing by 7.7% an hour, labor costs per unit of output rose at an annual rate...
Hitched tightly together, the two rockets look like a mother whale uncomfortably carrying its huge baby on its back. After they lift off from the pad, their configuration becomes even more extraordinary. At an altitude of 44 miles the mother ship unleashes its offspring; then, guided by a two-man crew, it dives back toward earth, using auxiliary jet engines and stubby, finlike wings to touch down like an ordinary aircraft. The smaller rocket ship continues to soar until it reaches a "parking" orbit about 115 miles high. After a single swing around the earth, it resumes its climb, gingerly...