Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when two men dressed as police broke into the Gardner, tied up two museum guards and dismantled the security system. They left with 13 objects, including two certified masterworks--Vermeer's The Concert and Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Strangely, the robbers chose not to lift the museum's most prized piece, Titian's Rape of Europa...
...like nothing I'd ever seen before--they had a laundry service for your clothes after practice, and if you wanted to lift they had a weight room," says Mayer, noting that back in Rhinebeck the sole weight machine was relegated to the tech-ed room...
Nehring shared a scene from a weekly meeting that his school conducts with students, parents and teachers: "At one point, a representative rose and said, 'I have a suggestion to change the homework policy to lift sanctions for not doing homework. The students should just accept the natural consequences for their actions...
...Vienna I Love came in right behind Riverdance in viewer popularity. The telecasts not only bring in money for local PBS affiliates, they also promote Rieu's CDs. When he visited the U.S. in August to work the phones at stations across the country, his on-camera appearances helped lift Vienna into Billboard's No. 1 spot. This month he will release The Christmas I Love, a collection of carols and holiday standards. Then in November comes his first North American tour, with stops in Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington...
School choice is the focus of Peterson's optimism. It is school choice, he writes, that will lift the United States from the bottom of the barrel. It is our freedom that will save us. Or as Peterson puts it, "the discipline of the marketplace" will help public schools "address their most serious problems." Before turning to this somewhat mystical promise, we must note that Peterson is not in the business of saving the public schools. His concern is for the nation's students, and if the public schools should survive the process, so much the better...