Word: lifting
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...assume the French left was still in power. Last week Seillière?president of France's main employers' organization?sternly warned the government to re-examine proposals that "serve neither economic growth nor employment." He also denounced the government's hesitancy to roll back job-protection measures and lift overtime limits linked to the 35-hour workweek. Seillière's criticism of France's nominally business-friendly government was remarkable, since he is not only the nation's leading lobbyist of market liberalization, but also the man who inspired the economic program that helped sweep the conservatives into...
...George W. Bush offers the particulars of his fitness routine: 3-mile runs six days a week, plus strengthening and stretching exercises. He says the workouts provide much-needed stress relief and urges Americans to follow his example. The magazine even critiques Bush's running form (nice knee lift but chin too high). The article continues a storied sporting tradition of athletic counsel from the Oval Office. --By Rebecca Winters
...growing power source--a high-tech challenge to the coal mines, oil rigs, nuclear reactors and hydroelectric dams that seem, well, so 20th century. Experts say wind could provide up to 12% of the earth's electricity within two decades. Wind farms in Texas, Oregon, Kansas and elsewhere helped lift U.S. wind-energy output 66% last year, and an additional $3 billion in American projects are in the works. "Wind is competitive," wrote Mark Moody-Stewart, the former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell who now co-chairs an alternative-energy task force for the Group of Eight, in a recent report...
...Those changes have brought Hu Yunxing's life full circle. Starting in 1972, when she was a 30-year-old peasant living on a commune, Hu spent years hauling sacks of earth to reclaim land as Chairman Mao had ordered. A pumping station worked day and night to lift water from her fields over a dike and into Dongting Lake. But the dike ruptured in 1996 and swept away Hu's earthen house. Her family rebuilt it in brick, which they thought would withstand anything. Then the flood that hit two years later took half of the house away again...
...whose greatest object of affection since his wife left has been his giant pig Mama, Tong Tong is inspiration, a reason to lift his head out of the slop. To his porcine-eyed son Ming, whose bedroom is decorated with pinups, she's fantasy made flesh. To Wong Chi-keung (Wong You-nam), a wannabe triad, she's the golden hooker who'll make him a pimp. And to Tiny, she's a friend?his only one. Like most heavenly gifts, however, Tong Tong is not what she seems. She teaches the painful lesson that nothing comes free...