Raise
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To join the high-income club, embodied by the OECD, China will have to
raise
that figure to at least 45% (depending on how real income is measured) – a level achieved, so far, by 36-40 economies.
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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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