Word: lifting
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Here's a novel idea for an airline: "People don't need to be treated like cattle." Founder David Neeleman's basic premise is giving lift to jetBlue, the lone, thriving survivor of a disastrous year for new airlines. In recent weeks, such upstarts as Pro Air, Legend and National all went bust, casualties of high fuel prices and hypercompetition from the big boys. That's not as likely to happen to jetBlue, whose business plan is well designed, well funded and well targeted...
...thought they deserved a lift. They were maybe a bit rattled, though in good spirits overall," he said...
...Bill Clinton's first acts as president was to issue an executive order to lift the gag rule, which had been in place since 1984. "What a difference an election makes," Feldt says. "Bush is sweeping back into town ready to slap those restrictions right back on. It will be his first move. If anybody ever wondered if their vote was important, you can see it right here...
Waldman remembers Summers' enthusiasm as they worked late one night on a speech Clinton was to give at a conference in Geneva two days later. A line in the speech mentioned how the global economy should lift people...
SORCERY A pregame onfield ritual featuring Yoruba priestess Ava Kay Jones and a boa, below, is being credited with helping lift a curse on the New Orleans Saints, who won their first play-off game in 34 years...