Word: lifting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Retail sales are expected to fall a tolerable 0.2 percent in July, led by declining auto sales, and while that?s not good, it?s still a July number, which will make it possible for Wall Street to continue to wait for those rebate checks to lift all our boats. Wal-Mart and Home Depot should both deliver good news, but we knew they would, and most Wall Street forecasters expect Rummy to make decent progress with the Russians by explaining the urgent post-Cold-War need for the world?s lone superpower to deploy a massive network of space...
...only a matter of months before these Darwinian marvels learn to use a can opener, a skill that will lift them to a higher stage of mouse evolution - and to the more civilized pleasures of canned Mexicorn, Bush's baked beans, and solid white, water-packed tuna. In a generation or two, smart young mice will have a system of pulleys that will open the refrigerator door in the middle of the night. God knows how a new infusion of butter, protein-rich cheese, yogurt, red-leaf lettuce, and V-8 juice will invigorate the breed and enlarge its cerebral...
...GREAT WHITE Scott Yerby never saw the great white shark before it attacked him as he surfed off Clam Beach near Eureka, Calif. "This thing jumped me--it had enough force to lift me right out of the water. It was on my leg, I could see my femur, there was blood in the water--I knew then it was pretty serious," says Yerby, who was 29 at the time of the August 1997 attack. He hit the shark on the nose (the prescribed last-ditch defense, along with ripping at its gills), managed to get back on his board...
...advantage as the country prepares for its next major soccer challenge, co-hosting the 2002 World Cup. "Nobody knows if Ono, Inamoto and Nishizawa will be able to play regularly in Europe," says Tokyo football writer Yoshiyuki Osumi. "But their experience of playing high-level soccer will certainly lift their performance and the Japan team." If the players help some European clubs sell more Tshirts along...
...Clinton economic slowdown. (Most economists blame the tax cut and the slowdown for the surplus shrinkage.) And the G.O.P. points out that even a reduced, $160 billion surplus amounts to the second largest ever. Republicans predict that Bush's tax rebate will soon give the sluggish economy a lift, generating more growth and higher tax receipts. And they claim that the real goal of the Democrats is to repeal Bush's tax cut. As Senator Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, put it, "If you really want to drive this country into the economic ditch, raise...