Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones industrial average checked in for cosmetic surgery last week and had four stocks liposuctioned from its bottom end. Is it time for a face-lift too? The "industrial" description is starting to look a little odd atop this svelte new body. Maybe it should be renamed Dow Lite...
...lack of connection? Why doesn't the national pastime provide the same lift it used to? Once we get to college, many of us sports fans don't follow our beloved sports as closely as we once did. New interests and activities can crowd out adolescent addictions. Shoe-boxes filled with baseball cards line our shelves at home, no longer the playthings of our leisure time...
...didn't warn you. For months, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has hinted that he would lift interest rates to head off inflation. Yields on Treasury bonds have been rising in anticipation that he'll pull the trigger on March 25 when the Fed Board meets. Higher rates are bad for the stock market but even worse for consumers. Even a quarter-point hike will hurt. Some 60 million households have "revolving" credit-card debt averaging more than $6,000, at an interest rate of about 17%. An uptick would add nearly a billion dollars in interest expenses. And those...
...just about ever Tennessee passing record there is. He also has genetics on his side -- he's the son of former pro star Archie Manning. Peyton said he had planned to stay in school until Bill Parcels came on as coach of the Jets, a move that promised to lift the sagging fortunes of the team. By staying, Manning runs the risk of suffering the same fate as his father, playing on a series of bad teams in New Orleans, a club that's likely to have the league's worst record -- and the first pick in the draft -- next...
...attended with him, he expressed little personal interest in his foreign visitors except for their technology, which he wanted immediately. Once I brought some books for his beloved grandchildren. Without looking at them, he handed them to an aide and started lecturing me about the need for Washington to lift all export restrictions on modern technologies--not "those of the '70s, but the '80s and '90s," he said fiercely...