Word: lifting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the next three years, KickStart plans to expand into three more countries, sell 125,000 more pumps, roll out a "deep-lift irrigation pump" that can pull water from 60 ft. underground and bring 400,000 more people out of poverty...
Adam tells me he gets terrible headaches from the Janjaweed horsemen in his head. They gallop around and around in his skull. He asks if I can give him a lift back into Sudan. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he says. I shake my head, and he wanders off. Watching him leave, Diar tells me Adam is obsessed with going home. Sometimes, when the headaches are bad, he disappears for days. He runs out into the the desert and back toward...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: God can make a rock that he can’t lift...
...Beyond juggling teaching, research, and advising, most professors are specialists and want to teach a course focused on the particular area in which they are an expert, which explains why so many Core courses are narrow and specific. There is, however, a clear solution: The new dean should lift FAS’ illogical rule that sends away lecturers, top-notch teachers better suited to teaching broad subjects and developing new classes, after eight years of teaching. Instead, lecturers’ contracts should also be indefinitely renewable if their services are needed and they are willing to provide them.The new system?...
...that is actually an improvement - until January, Yushukan had maintained that Washington tricked Tokyo into war in order to lift the U.S. out of the Great Depression. That was deleted in a recent revision of the some of the museum's historical explanations, although Yasukuni officials deny that the changes were made to placate any foreigners. They certainly don't go out of their way to soothe the feelings of Asian nations that suffered far more than the U.S. did at the hands of the Japanese army. Yushukan's exhibits on Japan's colonization of Korea in the first half...