"We really could get a very nice lift when some of this excess liquidity burns off".
Home-grown mange tout or sugar snaps paired with lobster fresh out of the sea certainly gave this humble vegetable a nice lift.
Detroit also got a nice lift from starter Doug Fister, whose acquisition in a trade keeps rising on the genius meter, writes Joe Lemire on SI.com.
That's a nice lift, though the process is a bit antiseptic given that no money changes hands at the house of worship (though Jews are not supposed to handle money on Shabbat).
He gets a limo ride to the Stadium most days from his apartment in Queens — it's in his contract — and a nice lift home with Bob Sheppard and Herb Steier at night.
Because many emerging economies in Asia and Latin America are big producers of natural resources, increased consumption in the United States — and rising prices of commodities — should provide a nice lift to many stocks in those regions, market strategists say.
Another case of happy whiplash is happening in Detroit, where the Lions' sinking season got a nice lift by Kevin Smith, whose unlikely comeback story saved the Lions from a severe running back drought, writes Mitch Albom in The Detroit Free Press.
The futuristic car, known as the Hy-Wire, had just gotten a nice lift from President Bush, who was photographed admiring it after announcing that the government would put $1.7 billion into researching hydrogen as a replacement for gasoline.
On Tuesday, he said, "none of us felt like doing anything, only to have that replaced on Wednesday by the notion that playing might be a nice lift for the country".
The sauce for this mock pasta is a froth of cream and clothbound Vermont Cheddar and the yellow dust is grated yolk of preserved eggs, which I could never quite detect, and grated lemon zest, which I could, and which gives the whole dish a nice lift.
Among new shows, which often are less recorded until viewers get to know them, the CBS drama "Vegas" got a nice lift to a 3.2 rating from a 2.5; and NBC's new comedy "The New Normal" looked far better after three days with a 2.8, up from a 2.0 — a gain of 40 percent.
