Word: lifting
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Though Clasby says he had never really downhill skied before, Kennedy took him above the top of the ski lift in Waterville Valley, N.H., leaving the newcomer no choice but to ski down the 2000 foot mountain...
When Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers paid a surprise visit to Baghdad, the general quoted Senator Ted Stevens in his effort to lift today's soldiers into that hallowed company. "They've written about the World War II generation as being the greatest generation. But he said it's this generation right now that is the next greatest generation." Some soldiers, however, wonder whether he was telling them the truth or just what he thought they want to hear. Dispatched to Kuwait and waiting for the signal to invade in the winter of 2003, soldiers who heard about...
CHRISTOPH FRANZ High Flyer Swiss International Air Lines, successor to the defunct Swissair, has been flying low since it took off in 2002. The unprofitable carrier is seeking to get lift from its new CEO, Franz, 44, who most recently worked at the German railway Deutsche Bahn. But it was Franz's track record at Lufthansa that put him in the Swiss pilot's seat. In the early 1990s, Franz helped then CEO Jurgen Weber free the German carrier from high labor costs and years of losses. Lufthansa tried and failed to grab Swiss late last year...
...Great Barrier Relief The E.U. welcomed the U.S. Senate's vote to repeal $4 billion worth of illegal export subsidies. Brussels says it will lift its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods - in place since March - once the legislation becomes...
...March, Thaksin pledged an economic aid package worth $300 million for the south. But financial assistance has failed to stem the violence. Local Muslims say the quickest way to ease their resentment would be to lift martial law, which Thaksin imposed on most of the south after Islamic gunmen attacked an army depot there in January, killing four soldiers and stealing some 400 rifles. For now, though, the Prime Minister thinks it's safer to bet on the healing power of rice and rhetoric...