Word: lifting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What the markets need is a surprise on the upside. There are other things that Wall Street can do - analysts need to start downgrading their earnings estimates for the slowdown, and get that over with, so companies have a chance to beat the Street and provide a lift. And businesses won't start investing just because rates are lower; in that regard, there's only so much the Fed can do, and some on the Street are expecting too much from him. But we need leadership, and Greenspan can provide that...
...anything. I took a bath first, alone. While I was in the tub, he took off his clothes. Then we did it. I used a condom so I wouldn't get pregnant. Afterward we agreed that it had gotten late, so he said, "I'll give you a lift." So he drove me to the station and that's when he paid me. I got 50,000 yen - 50,000 or 60,000, I can't remember...
...possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...
...Expect a lift, not condescension, says Carney: "We're all relatively young, but the show won't talk down to its audience." Weekly co-hosts on the show will include Jake Tapper of salon.com Michelle Cottle of the New Republic and Robert George of the New York Post, plus a special guest. Take 5 debuts at 8:30 p.m. E.T. this Saturday, March...
...Australia edition recently devoted its cover to an obituary of the legendary prewar batsman Sir Donald Bradman, noting his significance to Australia lay not simply in his unmatched ability to amass runs no matter how fearsome the bowling he faced, but in the ability of those storied exploits to lift his nation's spirits through the tribulations of the Depression and World War II. As writer Thomas Kenneally put it, "When we spoke of literary figures we spoke of Englishmen, but when we spoke of cricket we spoke of our own. No Australian had written 'Paradise Lost,' but Bradman...