Raise
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Anticipating a skeptical public reaction when Singapore
raise
d the salaries of government officials in 2007, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that he would forgo the
raise
for himself.
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Frequently, grandparents are raising their grandchildren because parents, due to alcoholism, domestic violence and general apathy, cannot
raise
them.
I tell kids when they struggle through some uphill and feel like they cannot take it anymore, it really helps to ignore the immediate obstacles and
raise
your head and look around and see how the vista around you grows.
In fact, when we first went out to
raise
money to start Babble, the venture capitalists said, "We categorically don't invest in companies founded by husbands and wives, because there's an extra point of failure.
And literally from that moment, she doesn't
raise
her hand anymore, she doesn't look for a promotion, she doesn't take on the new project, she doesn't say, "Me.
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