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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game, however, she had scored 18 points, grabbed four rebounds, dished out three assists and picked the ball off three times to lift Northeastern to a scorching 61-42 win. The Huskies stopped Harvard's (6-4) three-game win streak, and even that stat line didn't tell the whole story...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Playin' in a Winter Woeful-land | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...after bone transplants and three operations she still might never have full use of her arm. Richard Castaldo, whose eight gunshot wounds left him a paraplegic, has spent four months in the hospital and suffered through seven operations, but now he's back at Columbine. Every day a special lift hoists Richard and his black wheelchair into the big yellow Bluebird school bus that can seat 72 passengers but is reserved just for him; Richard plans to graduate with his class in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Victims: Never Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...issue of the World Trade Organization isn't so much one of globalization as of democracy vs. corpor-ocracy. Globalization has the potential to gradually lift all countries to higher standards for the environment, labor laws and justice. Instead, the WTO, multinational companies and governments are using globalization and open trade to circumvent democratically enacted laws that emphasize the need for a better quality of life and more balanced values. KERRY MCDANIEL Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...huge lift this year," Jones said. "The change is part of it, but it's not the whole thing...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Early Action Changes Cause Flux in Admits | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...other hand, didn't need to lift a finger in order to implement a holiday hiring policy--it was already in place. The store hires all its workers on a short-term basis, according to Tania Fernandez, a manager at the Brattle Street location...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais and David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 'Tis the Season to Work for Square Employers | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

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