Word: climbing
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Does this mean that compromise is impossible, that everyone must take sides and never climb down? Of course not. If the line between opinion and dogma disappears, then there is no hope. And without hope, there is no point in having opinions...
...says he also didn't figure on having to climb a ladder and swing himself over to the floor of his modest storage attic to get gym equipment...
...Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher mountain to climb," Maxey told TIME. And he, for one, has little hope of climbing...
...jail or on probation--when almost miraculously he was lifted out of that hellish environment and settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood--to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya, Brandon was named Most Improved Student; last month he returned to a highly regarded magnet school in Baltimore, where he just aced his first Latin test...
...Impressed by the logic, the President says, "All right, fellas, climb aboard...