Word: lifting
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...Music can give you a little lift sometimes, when it gets quiet," says Briggs & Briggs owner Fred H. Humphreys...
Although the bill would only apply to companies that comply with international labor laws, this scenario raises questions about exploitation and whether increasing business for large companies is the best way in which to develop poorer countries. For example, factories often lift the economy by providing new jobs, only to devastate it when they leave a few years later, having found cheaper labor elsewhere. However, although African textile unions object to the mandate to buy American fabrics, they overwhelmingly support the bill, which they hope will lead to increasingly more open markets. Indeed, the bill has the cross-cultural appeal...
...Nick's hitting has been tremendous for us this year," Lentz said. "He's been able to lift the ball out of the park and has really come through for us in the clutch...
What makes the Mars Direct plan remarkable is how unremarkable the science behind it is. The spacecraft in which the astronauts will live are descendants of the same pressurized vessels NASA has been building since the Mercury days. The boosters that will lift the ships off the ground are reconfigured engines cannibalized from the shuttle. The technology needed to distill the Martian atmosphere is the stuff of first-year chemistry texts. For this reason, Zubrin believes, Mars Direct could be surprisingly affordable: about $40 billion for five missions, or less than half the cost of the Apollo program in today...
Maryland sophomore starter Amanda Bettkar limited Harvard to six hits in seven innings of work to lift the Terrapins over the Crimson, 6-3, in the first game of the Buzz Classic...