Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 40,000 miles to meet the area's voters, promising them hard work in Washington even though he frankly admitted that "there's no way I'll solve the problems of the world." The candor was appreciated, but English got a bigger and wholly coincidental lift from a surprising source: a flood hit the district the Saturday before the election. English was able to point out that Camp had voted against a federal flood-insurance bill...
...miners feel that their demands are justified because the profits of some coal companies have tripled or even quadrupled so far this year. But a settlement of the size that the U.M.W. wants would probably lift the price of coal above its present record $15 a ton on long-term contracts and put more upward pressure on utility bills, steel prices and the cost of chemicals. Miller, in his first big bargaining test as U.M.W. president, has no margin for moderation. He runs the risk that his fractious rank and file members will thumb down any agreement he signs...
...beat St. Louis goalie John Davidson with a 35-foot backhander to lift the Bruins into...
...lift sales and profits, Murphy's team has two strategies. First, brake the soaring costs of production (estimated to be rising at $50 a car each month) by building more components in-house and striving to increase productivity. Second, increase fuel economy by trimming hundreds of pounds from the average 4,500 lb. weight of GM's full-size cars by 1978; that would doubtless increase sales of those models. Murphy also expects that material costs will ease fairly soon as demand cools hi the world economy...
...week later, the district judge refused to lift the injunction. Noting in his opinion that the blacks have the right to picket and boycott, the judge said this had to be balanced against the "rights of merchants, who are in no position to correct the demands." The judge also told the blacks that the injunction prevented only picketing of stores, and he strongly suggested their cause would be more effective if they picketed city hall...