Word: lifting
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...outsiders, and yet of immeasurable collective psychic significance to the nations where it is played. A significance that was on display in India this week, when one man appeared to singlehandedly (to the extent that this is possible in a game that is the very model of team effort) lift the nation's flagging spirits...
...high-scoring students who don't submit scores simply on principle." Lis Bernhardt, a senior at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Conn., was concerned more with pragmatism than principle. She spent months "consumed" by the SATs, investing countless hours--and more than $1,000--in tutoring to lift her scores. Then she toured Mount Holyoke, loved the campus and heard about its new SAT-optional stance. She submitted an early-decision application and received a thick acceptance letter in January. Says Lis: "It just appealed to me that they wanted to look at me as a person, the whole package...
...predict similar court-ordered arrangements will follow as technology advances and 4 out of 10 marriages fail. The son of an electrical engineer, John Sloop, a Seminole County, Fla., judge, has long delighted in the hands-on problem solving of building and repairing machinery, like the two-story grocery lift he helped build for his mother. So it was natural for Sloop, when making the "heart-wrenching decision" about where Ashton's primary residence would be, to embrace her mom's suggestion to use video equipment to ease the pain of separation...
...that Sharon has instructed the army to lift the closure of Tulkarm, Hebron, Bethlehem and Qalqilya, and they're saying they're going to open the borders and allow Palestinians to go back to work in Israel...
...Sharon is prepared to lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza and allow Palestinians to return to jobs in Israel, but not until the violence stops. There are positive signs from the Palestinians that if Sharon takes a few confidence-building measures, that may help them climb down from the branch onto which they've hauled themselves. When Barak came to power, Arafat wanted tangible things, like the withdrawal of troops from some land and other small measures - he didn't want to have to go to Camp David and negotiate a final deal. And so with Sharon...