Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...break the collusive ties among the bureaucracy, business and politicians that are the essence of Japan, Inc. That onetime source of Japan's strength is now blamed for paralyzing Tokyo's ability to respond to trade conflicts with the U.S., improve the lives of consumers, or even help lift the still deepening recession. The government has already commissioned reports on economic deregulation and tax reform as its first move against the old order...
...created some wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel") and seemed as likely to hit America's Top 40 as the piano stylings of Richard...
Guerrilla theater note, environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...
...dominated by tortured accounts of assassination conspiracies and an insatiable sexual appetite. Some of these stories may be true. But often lost in this clamor is a calm and just view of the man, flawed, wondering, trying. Above all else there was his humor, the trait that helped lift him on the way up and gave him special luster when...
Panelist Dennis K. Lin '94, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Students' Association, said Harvard could have continued supporting the ROTC program if President Clinton had kept his campaign promise to lift the military's ban on homosexuals...