Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patients are already working out in gyms; they're not 98-lb. weaklings," says Dr. Brian Novack, a busy Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who offers a dizzying array of body-altering operations. "Here, the emphasis is not getting a face-lift when you need it, but getting one before you need it." Lately Novack has immersed himself in a hot new field: implanting silicone in men in search of chiseled pectorals, firm buttocks, bulging calves and strong chins. One wonders what Walt Whitman would have had to say about that...
...becoming one of that select group of athletes known everywhere by just one name--"Magic"--Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA titles and helped lift the league to unprecedented success...
Others think that the best way to encourage the ongoing process of reform is to lift sanctions...
...plan, we were able to stay fairly close to the plan we identified in the beginning," Myers said. "That's the major way to make progress in the Cambridge voting process: one by one, vote by vote. I feel good...some of the pressure is beginning to lift...
What Washington politicians were singing last week sounded like the chorus of a wistful Beach Boys song. Wouldn't it be nice, they all sang, if we could cut taxes? Wouldn't that make voters happy in 1992 and lift the economy too? Once the song started, almost no one wanted to be caught out of tune. Not since both parties raced to heap tax breaks on their constituents a decade ago had Washington seen such an outbreak of charitable zeal. While economists denounced the latest proposals as too little too late and virtually certain to worsen the federal deficit...