Word: lifting
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...Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of fatalistic work ethic in evidence throughout, but in this lonesome congregation titles like "Take It Down," "Take It Back" and "Lift Every Stone" are exhortations to bear witness to unhappiness, not salvation. It takes the unabashed spiritualism of "God's Golden Eyes" and "Before I Go" at the album's conclusion for Hiatt to give himself at least a little more time before his final accounting. "Crossing Muddy Waters...
...household income of $40,816 and an 11.8 percent poverty rate--the lowest numbers since before the recession of the early 1990s. Good figures, and important affirmation of the strong economy's ability to reach deep into the American landscape, but, for 33 million people, still not enough to lift them out of poverty...
...Bush wants to sweat the Arabs - his last name and Cheney's connections are supposed to make this easier than it was for Bill Richardson. He wants to lift regulations on the construction of U.S. oil refineries, which he says are clogging the supply line, and create a privately managed Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in case refineries, as they are now, aren't up to the job of supply. He'll promote an energy alliance with Mexico and Canada, energy resources in non-OPEC regions, and establishing a meeting of G-8 energy ministers to encourage independence from OPEC...
...Lift...
...sure isn't going to lift this week...