Word: lifting
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...month the island will launch Europe's first third-generation mobile phone network, allowing users to surf the Internet and download video clips while on the move. Yet the Fairy Bridge, on the highway south of Douglas, the capital, didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath. Transparency, lower tax rates and G3 phones may help, but when it comes to preserving their hard-won prosperity, the Manx aren't taking any chances...
...what they want, a lot of the hits are harmless. Some may even come from applications, like Napster, that I have authorized to run. But at least some of them are probably hackers trying to rummage through my files, hoping to lift my credit-card number or empty my bank account...
...plan requires that Israel withdraw its troops from around Palestinian towns and cities, while the Palestinian Authority takes concrete steps to stop attacks on Israelis from areas under its control. The two sides would resume security cooperation, and Israel would lift its blockade on Palestinian areas and freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza. After four weeks, if the cease-fire holds, the two sides would resume political negotiations where they were left off with the Barak administration...
...bottom line is that education is a better way to lift people out of lower paying job than an arbitrary wage scale,” Wrinn said. “The students simply disagree with that...
...Oregon, because patients must be able to swallow pills in order to kill themselves, many worry about waiting past the point they can ingest substances. State officials wonder whether the law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by excluding those who can't swallow. "And can a family member lift the cup to their lips? I don't know," says Dr. Katrina Hedberg of the Oregon health division. "Those things need to play out in court...