Word: lift
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...WINDS OF CHANGE -- AND MONEY -- SEEMED CERtain to lift the San Francisco Giants baseball team out of their drafty, weather-beaten stadium and carry them to a new air-conditioned dome and a $115 million buyout offer in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then the wind shifted. Baseball team owners voted 9 to 4 to keep the Giants put, opting for a $100 million counteroffer and a pledge for a new stadium. "It's a game of tradition," trumpeted Chicago Cubs owner Stanton Cook in explaining the vote...
Bill Clinton becomes President without the warrant of a depression that emboldened F.D.R. or the lift of economic expansion that energized L.B.J. Times are hard; they are not desperate. But it is the long shadow and the troubled legacy of the Great Society -- not its policy failures so much as its political failure -- that Clinton must overcome. While he assumes the presidency with a detailed plan for domestic change, his vision will have to be implemented on the cheap: not a Great Society but, if his luck holds, a Pretty Good Society...
While defeating the Bears was about as challenging as a Gen Ed 105 final, the victory provided an emotional lift. After six futile weeks, the Crimson finally saw that it could win again...
...This [win] is a lift, no question. It's a morale booster, and you have to have that. Hopefully, it will carry us, and we'll play well going into the last...
...full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished work by Mahler as its launching pad. Riccardo Chailly and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw achieve lift-off and soar in both...