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Word: lifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALMOST TWO YEARS to the day after the last Americans left Saigon, the State Department announced last week that it would drop its opposition to Vietnam's application to join the United Nations, and promised to lift a trade embargo as soon as diplomatic ties are formally established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reconstruction Aid To Vietnam | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...major gainer would be the insulation industry, which would get a lift from Carter's proposal to give federal tax credits to homeowners and businessmen who insulate their buildings. The industry-notably the three major fiberglass insulation producers, Owens-Corning, Johns-Manville and Certain-Teed-has been on a hot sales streak since 1973, when energy consciousness-raising really began. And the market has barely been scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPACT: Sizing Up the Winners and Losers | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Drawing an audience for dance concerts has never been a problem, Mallardi pointed out. She feels that offering credit for courses in the Dance Program in composition and performance production, as well as the hiring of someone to lift the burden of production off the students and off Mallardi herself, who has only a part-time appointment, would go far towards solving the problem. Mallardi also noted that dance at Harvard is in an especially difficult position. "All the other artistic activities are isolated blocks of time. A dance concert, where the original work is done by each student, involves...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Motion in a Sedentary Society | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

...other expenses must be paid for by team members. These include travel expenses for road matches, which can be as high as $30 per person for each trip, and the cost of replacing paddles and balls. Just resurfacing a paddle with new rubber, a paddle-lift good players' must undergo at least twice a year, can cost...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Underspin and Funding Trouble Ping Pong Team | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

...retire. Instead, he announced a week ago that Notre Dame is undertaking the largest fund-raising drive in its history. $130 million. "Show me the top ten endowments," says Hesburgh, "and I'll show you the top ten schools in the country." Notre Dame's campaign will lift it close to the top ten, but everybody knows in the long run that will not be good enough for Ted Hesburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Prince of Priests, Without a Nickel | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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