Word: lift
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...even if it can, it is still important to keep in mind exactly what a $1,500 loan can do. The ultimate promise of Grameen - and of microfinance more broadly - is to use business lending as a way for people to lift themselves out of poverty...
...that job.” Fitzgerald, who, according to Ehrlich, was renowned for arriving at his office at 5:30 in the morning and working days that ran as long as 15 to 16 hours, was a master motivator who stressed accountability and got results. “Missing lift is a mistake you make once,” Ehrlich said. “Even being late to lift is a mistake you make once. If one person’s late, then the whole team’s guilty. You have 110 college kids and you tell them they...
...cricketers have proved themselves world beaters. And for once, the description "rainbow nation" genuinely applies; South Africa's cricketers are white, black, mixed race and ethnically Indian. In 2010, South Africa hosts soccer's World Cup. It won't win, but the success of its cricketers will help lift South Africa's spirits as it prepares for the world's biggest sporting event...
...avoid sounding Pollyannaish, he will have to emphasize the huge difficulties of and impediments to achieving this vision, avoid specific timetables and seek some small but early successes (starting with the cease-fire). But I believe Obama has the unique ability to lift the eyes of Arabs and Israelis from the mire of misery in which they seem forever bound to the far horizon of peace, security, normality and a better future for their children. Coming on the eve of Obama's Inauguration, the Gaza crisis has turned that opportunity into a necessity...
...Though the Massachusetts Hospital Association has previously expressed strong support of the charitable immunity cap, a spokesperson for the organization told the Globe in January 2006 that it would not oppose a bill to lift the charitable immunity exemption for sexual abuse claims against charities, as the bill was aligned with the hospitals’ mission...