Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already succumbed. Covey offers family testimonials, many from the Covey kids themselves, and it turns out--brace yourself--that old pop is pretty terrific. "His idealism," writes his wife in an effusive foreword, "inspires me, the people he teaches and our children; it makes us want to achieve and lift ourselves and others." Not since The Waltons has America seen a family so well adjusted. "We wanted our children to work in school and get as much education as possible," Covey writes. "We focused primarily on learning, not grades, and we hardly ever had to encourage the children...
...Times at least, when its 1.1 million subscribers (the third highest of any paper in the country, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today) were greeted last Monday, for the first time ever, with color photos in the daily paper. It's part of the most radical face-lift the Times has attempted in two decades. Besides adding color (which will creep from the "soft" sections onto the front page sometime in October), the Times has expanded from four to six sections on most weekdays, giving sports and arts their own daily freestanding sections for the first time. Deadlines...
...that Abundance's 2.2 million copies are in the hands of many people who actually hauled junk out of the basement last Tuesday. But Ban Breathnach is right: you would feel better after clearing a space for yourself. So much so that just thinking about it is enough to lift the spirit...
...behind this lies something even edgier and more discomfiting, a connection between the amazing economy and the sick joke: the attitude that if this rising tide doesn't lift your boat, you must be one hell of a loser...
When the run was over, the small staff would quiet the press and lift off the lead pages in their steel chases and throw the Linotype slugs into scoops to be reused. There would be quiet talk about the stories in the paper. In the drought years, we wondered if rain would ever come again. In the war years, we marveled at how quickly friends had been shipped around the world to distant battlefields, with only bits and pieces of their censored, yearning letters printed each week...