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We're politically addicted to growth because politicians want to
raise
tax revenue without raising taxes and a growing GDP seems a sure way to do that.
Spacehive in the U.K. is engaging in crowd-funding, getting you and me to
raise
the money to build the goalposts and the park benches that will actually allow us to deliver better services in our communities.
I couldn't just stay in Seattle and
raise
my kids in an upper-middle class neighborhood and feel good about it.
I have to really
raise
my voice to talk over 65 decibels of sound, and teachers are not just raising their voices.
They
raise
their hands like this.
You see it on their faces and their bodies, and they sit in their chair and they make themselves tiny, and they go like this when they
raise
their hand.
Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and
raise
capital.
If the government's fiscal survival depends on it having to
raise
money from its own people, such a government is driven by self-interest to govern in a more enlightened fashion.
If you
raise
questions about that formulation, you really are considered a bit of an antique.
And I think that attachment, the third brain system, evolved to enable you to tolerate this human being at least long enough to
raise
a child together as a team.
We can't have anything to do with you." (Laughter) So I paid for coffee that day — (Laughter) — and his parting comment as we shook hands was, "Listen, if you happen to
raise
any money out of this, we'll gladly take it."
So what we did was, we took some of the money that we raised in Australia to bring the campaign across to this country, the U.S, and the U.K., and we did that because we knew, if this was successful, we could
raise
infinitely more money globally than we could just in Australia.
Now we always focus, naturally, on how much we raise, because it's a very tangible outcome, but for me, awareness and education is more important than the funds we raise, because I know that is changing and saving lives today, and it's probably best exampled by a young guy that I met at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, at the start of the year.
So those conversations, getting men engaged in this, at whatever age, is so critically important, and in my view so much more important than the funds we
raise.
Now to the funds we raise, and research, and how we're redefining research.
But I want everybody to
raise
their hand at some point.
I can tell if you don't
raise
your hand.
So
raise
your straws if you'll join me.
We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to
raise
food.
Just
raise
that.
We can just
raise
taxes a bit and close that gap, especially if we
raise
taxes on the rich.
So gradually
raise
Social Security retirement age, maybe only on people not yet born.
Raise
medical health care contributions?
Please
raise
your hand right now if you're willing to admit that all four of these are national problems.
Please
raise
your hands.
He does look good, because kids need structure, and the trick I play in all of my school appearances is that when I get through with my little homily to the kids, I then invite them to ask questions, and when they
raise
their hands, I say, "Come up," and I make them come up and stand in front of me.
Even in the midst of terrible destruction and death and chaos, I learned how ordinary people could help their neighbors, share food,
raise
their children, drag someone who's being sniped at from the middle of the road even though you yourself were endangering your life, helping people get into taxis who were injured to try to take them to hospitals.
A major overhaul of Poland's education helped to dramatically reduce between variability among schools, turn around many of the lowest-performing schools, and
raise
performance by over half a school year.
Portugal was able to consolidate its fragmented school system,
raise
quality and improve equity, and so did Hungary.
So the news came, I applied to school and I was accepted to Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and I couldn't come without the support of the village, because I needed to
raise
money to buy the air ticket.
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