Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recruiting process picks up in July after an athlete's junior year of high school--when the NCAA allows coaches to begin telephoning and visiting recruits at home. (For football, the embargo on personal contact does not lift until August...
...converted with only three minutes left in the first period. Sophomore Geordie Hyland blasted a shot from the right point where freshman Craig Adams was waiting to tip the puck into the back of the net. This goal brought the bench to its feet and gave Harvard a needed lift and a 2-1 lead...
...America will take a heroic effort, no matter who wins. Beset by corporate downsizing and increasingly harsh union-busting tactics, labor has seen its share of the U.S. work force shrink from about 35% in the mid-1960s to just 15% today. The diminished unions have been powerless to lift the wages of the average worker, which have shown virtually no growth for the past two decades after adjusting for inflation, even as productivity and corporate profits have soared...
...there an articulable meaning in the numbers and energy? Was the Million Man March a Woodstock of black American manhood--a vivid but perishable spectacle? A protest without a program, the dictum has it, is mere sentimentality. Or was the march a turning point, a moment of moral lift-off, a Great Awakening? And would there be, down the road when nothing changes, another Great Disillusioning...
...Williams keeps talking about reform,'' says Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, a former police commission president, "but I did not see him lift a finger to implement it." Greenebaum recently resigned to protest a scandal in which Williams accepted free lodging during five trips to Las Vegas, then lied about doing so. The city council backed Williams over Greenebaum's police commission, but Williams filed a claim against the city for leaking the report, then settled out of court--a shabby little sideshow to the O.J. spectacle...