Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...income, the number of families defined as poor would drop 42%, from 23.6 million to 13.6 million. Bureau experts admit there is a misleading factor in their new calculations: medical services account for 75% of all noncash benefits. While important to the poor, such services do not help lift them above the poverty line; indeed, inclusion of medical benefits in the formula makes it seem that those in the worst health are the wealthiest. Yet even if Medicaid and Medicare were excluded, the number of those defined as poor would drop 16% if the market value of their housing...
...supporters had predicted, Schmidt carried the day. Delegates declared their preference by raising red voting cards, but no count was considered necessary because Schmidt had clearly received a majority of roughly 2 to 1. Yet it was an oddly hollow victory in a congress that failed to lift the party out of its deep-seated doldrums. Although Schmidt's coalition of Social Democrats and the Free Democratic Party was reelected with a handsome majority of 45 seats only 19 months ago, it has been in steady decline since then...
Even after she suffered a stress-fractured hip during the soccer season, the Eliot House resident diligently trudged across the river to lift upper body weights throughout the winter...
...will lift our faces even if it rains...
...elaborating new anxieties about nuclear war, its gaze flicking distractedly over the future, abruptly the 19th century came barging into the room: a plumed, anachronistic production of outraged empire in its panoply and high rhetoric. The British fleet steamed out of Portsmouth. To relieve Gordon at Khartoum? To lift the siege of Lucknow? The British were vividly time traveling. The ministers of the ex-empire took a bracing, almost archaically principled stand-a position that itself seemed an exercise in nostalgia: quaint, perhaps, but admirable. Honor was mentioned. The imperial ships set sail like positrons on an expedition into reverse...