Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step removes the immediate threat that oil companies would lift the price of their products suddenly and sharply. But it still leaves Congress and the Administration at odds over how best to cut oil consumption, boost domestic production, and make the U.S. less dependent on foreign crude. To accomplish these goals, the Administration favors a gradual increase in prices to be achieved by phased decontrol. The Democratic majority in Congress, stressing the inflationary dangers of letting oil prices rise, prefers to put greater emphasis on import quotas and allocation programs...
Some of the mysteries of the Patty Hearst case began to lift when the four were arraigned two hours later in a crowded San Francisco federal court. The first to be handled was Wendy Yoshimura, a Japanese-American artist who disappeared in 1972 after being charged with taking part in a plan to bomb the naval-architecture building on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Federal authorities believe that she and Patty Hearst have been together since at least the summer of 1974. Magistrate Owen Woodruff dismissed federal fugitive charges against Yoshimura, and remanded her to the custody...
...economy, postal rates seem to do nothing but zoom. Last week the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service formally applied to the Postal Rate Commission for a 26% across-the-board boost in rates. Though the commission will spend a year considering the proposal, the service will be allowed to lift rates on a "temporary" basis shortly after Christmas. The Postal Service noted that it is currently losing $2.6 billion a year, and even after the next increase it will lose "hundreds of millions of dollars" this fiscal year, which began July 1. Altogether, the new rate hikes will swell revenues...
...underneath them in a thin film that acts as a bearing. In the Rolair-designed system at the Aloha Stadium, 416 such air bearings are positioned under the four movable stands. They are linked by pipe to three large compressors. When the compressors are turned on, the bearings lift the stands up about .004 in. above a smooth concrete surface. That is enough to reduce friction sufficiently so that the stands can be moved along by hydraulic jacks a distance of 180 ft. in only 20 or 25 minutes...
...termed non-Government by veto. Ford has still not won over many Democrats to his approach of letting prices of U.S.-produced oil rise gradually as a means of stimulating exploration and production and forcing consumers and industry to burn less petroleum. The President's latest plan-to lift the controls over a period of 39 months, with the major impact coming after the November 1976 elections-was voted down in July. Many Democrats have deep ideological objections to price rises that fatten oil-company profits. At the same time, the Democrats have no agreed strategy for forcing energy...