Word: lift
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Washington -- NASA's planned $17 billion space station, dubbed the "Orbiting Pork Barrel" by opponents, barely got past the House last year. This year it may not even lift off the pad of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Influential Chairman GEORGE BROWN, worried about the project's effect on other items in the nasa budget, has told the President to glean some money from elsewhere for the station -- perhaps from foreign aid or environmental programs -- or else Brown's pivotal vote for the project will stay grounded...
Prison officials, however, don't follow the logic. Most correctional officers strongly oppose such a ban; Milwaukee prison officials are starting a petition drive against the supervisors' decision. "Weight lifting is a tool to help control the inmates," says Jeff Mayer, security manager at the House of Correction. Currently, inmates are allowed only 50 min. a day in the gym, which leaves plenty of time for more cerebral pursuits. Those who avoid prison violations for at least 30 days earn extra time to pump iron, while troublemakers are denied barbell privileges. Says Sergeant Andrew Lammers, the gym director: "If inmates...
...handicapped parking space," he confesses. "The hardest part is you feel you're falling apart," says Rena Shnaider, a retired rehabilitative counselor from Oakland, California, who has spent her life in a wheelchair but who drove a car, went to college and had enough control over her body to lift herself up when needed. "I know I can't do half the things I used to, and it makes me sad to have to accept...
...about attending the funeral of I.R.A. member Thomas Begley, who died last October when the bomb he was planting in a fishmonger's shop in a Protestant neighborhood went off prematurely, killing nine men, women and children besides himself. As is the custom at Irish funerals, Adams "took a lift," shouldering the coffin for a short time on the way to the cemetery. ; That picture stirred outrage in Britain, where it was regarded as proof that Adams was an I.R.A. boss. "It would have been seen as a cynical political maneuver not to attend," he says. "I accept the criticism...
...glance at the lift off previous Lowell House Opera productions shows that the company's repertoire is as varies as its history is long...