Word: lifting
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...fishing is kept low impact: anglers must use barbless hooks and release every catch. At the end of the day, when Craig's blue-and-white chopper whup-whups up the valley to lift you off the sandbar, only your bootprints remain. And you take home nothing but a tired casting arm and the memory of some of the greatest fly-fishing you will ever experience...
...fought an internal battle last spring with Bush's economic and foreign policy advisers over steel tariffs. Rove was for imposing the duties--favored by steel companies and unions in Mid-western swing states--and he won. It was Rove who in July warned Republican lawmakers who wanted to lift the trade embargo on Cuba that the White House would never go along. Bush's position was based on policy, not politics, Rove promised, but the Congressmen didn't buy it. The Cuban-American lobby is key to Bush's hope of winning Florida in 2004, not to mention...
...They need a little face-lift after four or five years,” AiroFarulla said...
...next couple of years, more than 1,000 other aging McDonald's outlets may get the bulldozer treatment, and 6,000 others could be given a face-lift. But rebuilding the company's formerly sizzling burger business in the U.S., which accounts for half its $40 billion in global sales, will be much more difficult. In July and August, revenues at its U.S. stores open for at least 12 months shrank 2.7% from the year before. The company has suffered declining profits for six of the past seven quarters and just lowered its earnings expectations for 2002. Wall Street...
...pilots of foreign airlines, and even after it began to, in 1978, it issued waivers for several more years. Only in 1995 did the FAA extend the rule to U.S. pilots of smaller, commuter airlines. That move spurred Republican Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska to sponsor legislation to lift the age to 63. It failed, but last month Murkowski reintroduced the bill, and the measure may be voted on by the Senate in a few weeks, though its prospects for passage...