Word: lift
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...modern Presidents lived through World War II. Consequently, they have been conditioned to fight anywhere, any time. Perhaps the next generation will lift from us this burden of policing the world...
...nation's 10 million physically handicapped, telecommuting encourages new hopes of earning a livelihood. A Chicago-area organization called Lift has taught computer programming to 50 people with such devastating afflictions as polio, cerebral palsy and spinal damage. Lift President Charles Schmidt cites a 46-year-old man paralyzed by polio: "He never held a job in his life until he entered our program three years ago, and now he's a programmer for Walgreens...
Specifically, Fiallos had urged that the Sandinistas call "free, just and honest" elections. Although the increasingly un popular government has promised to hold free national elections in 1985, many Nicaraguans doubt that it will. Fiallos also said that the Sandinistas should lift their nine-month-old state of emergency, which allows press censorship and arbitrary detention, and that they should end the "illegal and unjust" confiscation of property. Fiallos strongly defended the politically moderate Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, whom he described as "one of the bravest men in Nicaragua." The prelate has been highly critical of the Sandinistas, although...
While Eckstein contended that lower taxes and a somewhat larger deficit in the short run would help lift the economy out of recession, he agreed with all the other board members that, after the recovery begins, the budget gap must be narrowed substantially. Unless something is done, the economists predicted, the deficit will rise from $110.7 billion in fiscal 1982 to more than $170 billion in 1984. That would be nearly three times as high as the biggest deficit recorded by any previous Administration...
...coach he was unapologetically more imitator than innovator. Bryant did not outthink his opponents, he outworked them. "I'm just a plow hand from Arkansas," he would say. "But I've learned over the years how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat, together, a team...