Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eric Baker '95 writes on page 21 about the Senate's attempt to lift restrictions on major league baseball team owners. Baker warns, "Without the right to tightly regulate its franchises, major league baseball would be powerless to prevent teams from hopping from one city to another. Longtime fans would be abandoned in the free market quest for profits." Good going, Senate. Thanks to that other bill you passed, my favorite team is going to become the Guadalupe Phillies. And George Steinbrenner is going to buy my younger brother to be his mistress. Wait. I mean--oh, save me, Peninsula...
...Part of my job is to lift the hopes and aspirations of the American people," the president said on World AIDS Day, "knowing that as long as you're trying to lift hopes and lift aspirations you can never fully close the gap between what you're reaching for and what you're actually doing...
That is, until the Crimson power play kicked in. Senior Brian Farrell's well-directed tip-in of a Chris Baird point shot with 1:14 to play in the first--Harvard's 15th man up goal of the year--gave Harvard a big lift going into the first intermission...
...imagine it. You are in a box. A little, skinny box with tiny portholes. And somehow, that little box is up in the sky. In the sky! Where it's not supposed to be. And if you lift off the ground in Washington at noon, you can be in Boston at 1:30. Or maybe 1:35. At the very latest, 1:40. In a different city, nine hours away...
...last good chance -- to revitalize NASA's faltering image, which has suffered one blow after another since the Challenger explosion in 1986. Just in the past year, the beleaguered space agency has lost contact with the $1 billion Mars Observer, has had a shuttle launch aborted three seconds before lift-off and has run into serious trouble developing the GOES-Next weather satellite, which is three years behind schedule and now has a price tag of $1.7 billion, double the original estimate...