Word: propell
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...Pakistani government has tried to clamp down on the trafficking. In 2000, authorities stopped 74 children en route to Dubai. But families willingly go along. The going rate - $500-$1,000 a child plus $120 a month for the two to three years a boy usually races - can propel a family out of poverty in a country where the average annual income...
...Anna Kournikova, you've got to keep winning, and as the pre-Olympic World Cup campaign wore on, Jean & Jen didn't. Or was it just Jen who wasn't pushing her weight? The brakeman's job in a two-person sled is primarily to propel the sled at the start. Go a tenth of a second too slow in this 50-m run-up, and you're a loser. Jean & Jen finished third in one race, out of the medals in all others, as Germans swarmed the podium. Racine told Davidson not to worry. On Dec. 5, says Davidson...
...clever marketing--while obviously important--will avail you little if you don't make popular products. And like many successful entertainment execs, he holds that focus groups will take you only so far: there's always an element of gut, and of risk. Lutz used his gut to propel a struggling Chrysler to greatness in the 1990s with a series of cars and trucks that initially raised eyebrows internally but have since became household names: the Viper, the Ram pickup, the PT Cruiser...
Peljto shot 7-of-7 from the line for the night to propel her team’s free-throw percentage to 77.6, good for fifth in the nation. She has shot 85 percent from the line this season...
...must this obligation always fall on consumers? Yes, it is generally agreed that consumers, who outnumber suppliers, propel and control markets. But what happened to old fashioned supply and demand? If something is needed to jumpstart the economy, why don’t producers stick out their necks and reduce prices a little more to entice spending? Insisting consumers dig deeper into their savings is not exactly fair—not at a time of rising unemployment and uncertain futures. Not only is it unfair, it’s also just plain unlikely. According to a highly unscientific...