Word: lifting
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...improve themselves and find better jobs: "It was the strangest jumble of ideas I had ever encountered, combining the primacy of the individual with rules that were at once New Age and rigid...the message was modern - express yourself, be confident - but it came with traditional assumptions: You will lift up your whole family....I noticed something: the students did not fall asleep. They did not look bored. No one ever left to use the bathroom during the two-hour class; they were afraid they might miss something...They took only what they needed, grasping the principal lesson long before...
Renewed optimism similarly reigned in Europe, where effervescent markets got a midafternoon lift from U.S. President George W. Bush's announcement of a new government plan to inject $250 billion of capital in exchange for equity into at least nine American banks. The move to further stabilize the U.S. finance market prodded rising European indices to move still higher Tuesday afternoon, with both Paris' CAC 40 and Frankfurt's Dax up 4.5% and London's FTSE 100 up 4.9%. The trio boomed with 11.2%, 11.4% and 8.8% surges respectively during the previous session...
...participated in cadaver dissections. At the talk, Macaulay showed three interpretations of the digestive system, depicting it alternatively as a factory, a river, and a college campus. Other images included a series on the muscle-by-muscle construction of an eye that showed tiny people using a crane to lift the eyeball into the skull. Another depicted a roller-coaster, aptly titled “Ride of a Lifetime,” winding its way from a forest—the lungs—through a pumping heart. Macaulay described the arduous process of learning about the body, which involved...
...Tannhäuser” is also a story about love. The muted sound of the overture’s opening in the clarinet melody evoked a prayer-like feeling. However, the performance failed to build on this. At times, Sakir was able to lift the brass line above the lush strokes of two-note slurs in the strings for a regal effect. But the musical lines frequently stopped before the end of the phrases, and, despite the music’s religious undertones, the delivery lacked fervor. Even during the piece’s most climactic moments, the orchestra?...
...slip it behind the goalie,” McCoy said. Harvard added another tally when Keating struck again. On a penalty corner, McGillivray fired a shot, but the attempt was saved by a diving Labarge. The rebound rolled out in front of the net where Keating collected it and lifted it over the prostrate goalkeeper and into the net. “Chloe showed really nice poise on the lift,” Caples said. At halftime, the Crimson lead 4-0, with a sizeable advantage in shots, 13-3, and penalty corners, 10-2. The defense applied consistent pressure...