Word: lift
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...compete with megacarriers like United and American. The Continental shares are being sold by Air Partners, controlled by investor David Bonderman. Continental was operating on a wing and prayer five years ago when Air Partners and Air Canada (which since sold its shares) each invested about $50 million to lift the carrier out of bankruptcy. Last week Air Partners sold its remaining shares for $519 million. The alliance will boost Northwest and Continental's U.S. market share to a combined 16.8%, on par with United, American and Delta Air Lines...
...Mount Baker possibly the sport's most respected event. But when Haakonsen finishes, there are no corporate sponsorships, no teams, no coaches, no flags, no network TV. A few ragged kids in wet gear cheer the best rider in the world as he slips off, back to the chair lift. The Norwegian packs up his third Mount Baker trophy (a golden roll of duct tape) and prepares to head up to Vancouver, B.C., to consult on a snowboard video game. And then probably home to Oslo, or Jackson Hole, Wyo., or maybe back to Mount Baker. But not to Japan...
...lift when one of your players is in the box and you can still score without them," Asano said. "Our mandown unit saw the gaps, and they took them...
...would certainly not have played with my 11-year-old son if there had been any evident danger. None of us were told not to play by any official of the Aspen Skiing Co. Ski-patrol members invariably skied behind us to complete their afternoon sweep, and ski-lift personnel routinely ferried our ski poles to the bottom of the mountain. Michael was the best all-terrain skier I have ever seen. He was skiing at a moderate speed on a well-lit and well-groomed intermediate slope, playing a game with his children, something many of us have done...
Guinier's soon-to-be-published book, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice, uses her experience with her nomination to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department as part of an examination of the past and present civil rights movement, according to Guinier...