Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jews are a parasite race that has for 4,000 years made a practice of attaching itself to a host country and sucking it dry....I am beginning to sense that I am not welcome here." In 1939, the headline reads "Hitler Neutralizes Polish Menace: Europe relieved as Germans Lift Grim Specter of Polish Tyranny from Continent." In 1944, Our Dumb Century reports that Hitler interrupted his speech to say "'All I'm saying is, give peace a chance.' He whispered, his voice choked with emotion, 'War is over, if you want...
...reason." The pedigree of both rockets suggests that company engineers should be able to work out the kinks of these latest models reasonably quickly. "Both the Delta III and the Titan IV come from an extraordinary family of rockets," says Kluger. "Earlier versions of the Titan were used to lift up the Gemini astronauts, and the earlier Deltas had one of the most superlative launch records...
...American rocketry up to it? Earlier this week, and for the third time in a month, a U.S. rocket failed to lift its satellite payload into the proper orbit. On Tuesday, the second-stage boosters failed on a Boeing-made Delta III; in April, two Lockheed Martin Titan IVs fell short of their target orbits. The mission cost of the latest Delta failure, an Orion communication satellite that wound up in a lopsided orbit, was $230 million. That is the kind of money satellite companies don?t generally like to see blast off into nothing...
Indeed, long-beleaguered shares of small companies got a lift from the rotation and stayed strong even as investors returned to their Internet darlings. This broadening, if it persists, comes with great risk. Rarely does a major shift in investor thinking arrive without a dose of market pain. "Most of the Internet stocks have made their highs," declares Dick McCabe, market analyst at Merrill Lynch. He believes the industrial stocks will re-emerge as market leaders later this spring, following a wide pullback. If he's right, the fuddy-duddies may at last celebrate for a good long while...
...World Trade Organization?s settlement of the banana war between the U.S. and Europe, the food fight between the two continental trade giants continues. On Monday, beef was once again served up on the table of disputes as a May 13 deadline approaches for the European Union to lift its ban on hormone-treated beef from the U.S. The latest bone of contention: a report from European Union scientific experts stating that one of six typically used hormones used "has an inherent risk of causing cancer." The response from the U.S. side: baloney. "This is part of a struggle that...