Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League Quote of the Week goes to Columbia coach Ray Tellier for stringing together back-to-back-to-back cliches: "When the chips were down we had some people rise up and do what you gotta do in tight situations...
Last summer, Johnson founded the Rebuilding the Inner City Spiritually and Economically (RISE) program...
...said of the highlights of the RISE program was a fact-finding mission participants took to Ghana in early September to develop cultural, spiritual and economic awareness...
...Powell has shown military leadership, but he has no experience in the very different businesses of government and politics. We should respect Colin Powell for his dedicated service to our military. We should respect Colin Powell for his dedicated service to our military. We should admire him for his rise from the streets of the South Bronx to the hallowed halls of the Pentagon. But whether we should elect him the next president of the United States is another question entirely...
...convinced that Strike must have murdered a rival drug dealer. The only other logical suspect is the kid's older brother Victor (Isaiah Washington), but that makes no sense; the man is working two jobs to support a wife and two kids, trying to engineer a respectable rise in the world...