Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People need it. The people are going to love [the Mall]. It is going to give them a lift, and they are going to be proud of it. That is what this country needs and the world needs-people and symbols they can look...
...various times the Greeks have tried to lift at least part of the burden. In the 1950s the government launched a privately subscribed fund drive to provide dowries for poor girls. Although the latest reform attempt is more sweeping than any other, it is still unlikely to drive dowries out of Greek life in anything but the formal sense. Says Professor Andrew Gazis, chairman of the government committee drafting the antidowry bill: "Customs are deep within our country's soul. There will be no way to stop a father from offering a daughter a gift when she marries...
...Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP, who played the critical role in persuading Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Judiciary and a strong opponent of the bill, to report it to the full Senate which then passed it. "Phil Hart... was indispensable. Somehow he was able to lift the roadblocks...He was such an honest, such a fair man, that Eastland probably felt an obligation to act responsibly with him," Mitchell said...
With the exception of the Snowflakes' waltz, borrowed from Vassily Vainonen's Kirov production, Baryshnikov completely restaged The Nutcracker. His choreography is in a classical mold, swift and precise. There are overhead lifts of every variety, and many florid codas. In spirit, Baryshnikov echoes New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins. Fluent lyrical lines are buoyed up by the current of the music. Like Robbins, too, he sometimes descends into Broadway kitsch; a clash of cymbals in the orchestra pit invariably signaled a showy lift onstage. The audience adored...
...begin tackling some of the nation's unmet social needs−for example, mass transit and aid to education. Other Democrats on the board doubt that new spending programs beyond $5 billion or so could be cranked up quickly enough to give the economy the immediate lift it needs. In any case. Carter will be wary of going too far for fear of upsetting his plan to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Even the most modest plan before him might swell the deficit in fiscal 1977 from the $61 billion now estimated...