Word: lifting
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...economic growth and stability in the U.S. too. But the doubts are more for the long term and linked to the big deficits. For now, at least, the economy is humming again. "The optimism is more real," said Tyson. The question is whether that optimism will be enough to lift everyone else out of the doldrums...
...each remaining game taking on more importance, the Crimson has gotten more contributions off the bench. One such player is a freshman recently brought up from the junior varsity squad, Dillon O’Neill. “Dillon came off of the bench and gave us a big lift,” Kerr said. “He came in for Marcel [Perl], and he was sharp, he was fast, and he was ready to play.” The team will need to build upon this weekend’s performance when it takes on Yale...
...Even if Bill Clinton were to lift that restriction today, however, it would likely be years before the public actually got to see all of the documents from his presidency. (At the archives, Richard Nixon - whose papers have taken years to sort through and continue to yield bizarre troves of information - is known as "the gift that keeps on giving.") Thanks in part to the technology of the era in which he presided over the country, Clinton generated an unusually large volume of material: an estimated 20 million e-mails, averaging three pages each, plus another 78 million pages, enough...
...public gallery; crisscross Sydney to poke through storerooms; mount ladders to fetch preserving jars from high shelves; lie on floors to photograph specimens too fragile to be moved more than a meter from their cases. The sumptuous result, Museum (Cambridge University Press), provides the armchair-dwelling naturalist with a lift, a key to the storerooms, and a magnifying lens...
...Musharraf aligned himself with President Bush, who has consistently called the Pakistani leader one of America's most important allies in the war against terrorism. For years, he had enjoyed acclaim for his reputation for incorruptibility as well as for getting the U.S. to lift the economic sanctions put in place after Pakistan tested its first nuclear bomb...