Word: lifting
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...pitching nearly helped lift Oneonta into playoff contention in the New York-Penn League. The Tigers finished with a mark of 37-37, good for third place...
That night the old ways were very much alive. The gala, which raised almost $24 million, has been criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent...
When TIME chose to feature on its cover Olympic hopeful Sarah Hughes as a contender for the gold medal, I thought you were being, well, hopeful! Yet Sarah's performance at the Games during the figure-skating long program [WINTER OLYMPICS, March 4] managed to lift the tarnish from the earlier ice-skating controversies--and showed (for once, at least) that the best ice skater earns the gold. SHANNIN SCHROEDER Magnolia...
Meanwhile, the lift-off thus far has been more projected than real. "We've seen stabilization, but the end market hasn't recovered," notes analyst Jeremy Lopez at MORNINGSTAR. At Applied Materials, revenue will be down 40% this year, and the firm will earn just 25[cents] a share, Chaney estimates, compared with $2.39 in the peak year of 2000. It will be two to three years before earnings per share top the previous peak, he says. And you shouldn't own the stock unless you believe that will happen...
...That night the old ways were very much alive. The gala, which raised almost $24 million, has been criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent...