Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMADO CARRILLO FUENTES Call it the fatal face-lift: druglord dies during plastic surgery intended to fool cops...
Airline profits have gained altitude in recent years, with full jets and rising prices providing lift. According to Tom Parsons, editor of Best Fares Discount Travel Magazine, the major airlines have boosted fares 37 times since May 1992. Fares are up 18% since January, with business travelers shouldering a 25% increase. No other industry in the country currently has such pricing power...
...This is Independence Day, and I am alone. So are we all. This is what we discover at times like these--the first flight around the moon, the moon walk, the probe of Jupiter, the Viking missions, and now this amazing, take-your-breath-away event. Errands into space lift us out of ourselves and return us to ourselves. They tell us that we are alone in the universe, and how terrible and wonderful an idea that...
...campaign that outraged many within the industry. Miller Lite's new TV spots viciously attack advertising standbys--machismo, sex, telemarketing--with spots "approved" by "Dick," a faux "creative superstar." Sample: an older couple necking on a couch. The campaign, designed to reach the crucial twentysomething age bracket, has helped lift the brand's supermarket sales 12% since January. Says Scott Donaton, executive editor of Advertising Age: "Fallon likes to take the status quo and just shake the hell out of it." But being risky doesn't necessarily mean being effective. Fallon's work for McDonald's Arch Deluxe featured kids...
...debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park did for Bruce Springsteen in 1973. Buckley's rise was tinged with poignancy. Success promised to lift him at last out of the haunting shadow of his father, the brilliant folk singer Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose...