Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wherever you go, however you go, the important thing is to enjoy yourself at a sport that doesn't require ten-dollar lift tickets, two hour rides in search of "skiable snow," or equipment that would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury...
...27th birthday and Ernie Holmes, defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was picking up the meat for his party. Not at the supermarket or butcher's, though. Holmes was personally slaughtering a calf at his father's farm outside Houston. "I gave him a forearm lift," says Holmes, describing his barnyard battle with the beast. "That knocked him into the fence Then I put a full nelson on him." Finally Holmes dropped the animal with a high-powered rifle. "Forty-five minutes later," he says, "we had the calf skinned and dried...
...emotionalism could be real. He's the only guy I know, he can be playing a great game himself, but if the team's losing he gets into a terrible depression." Art Rooney senses the same fire. "That Joe Greene," he says. "I've never seen a player lift a team like he does...
...industry's resurgence should give a lift to the economy, especially in the South. Textile manufacturers plan to raise capital spending next year to as much as $850 million, from $660 million this year, generating new orders for equipment suppliers. J.P. Stevens & Co., for example, is buying an estimated $15 million worth of new weaving machines that turn out cloth at a much faster rate than present equipment...
...week will be down. Many economists now forecast that total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation, will rise at an annual rate of 5% this quarter. That would be a solid gain, though below the 13% leap in the third quarter, when output got a one-shot lift as businessmen who had cleaned out their inventories began filling orders from new production again...