Sentences with phrase «who lifts all boats»

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The DVD extras include a 1984 interview with Arenas, a dissident writer and homosexual who escaped Havana in the Mariel boat lift and died of AIDS in 1990;

Statewide programs in Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio, however, already have demonstrated clear positive effects on the achievement of students who remain in public schools, confirming Caroline Hoxby's claim (see «Rising Tide,» features, Winter 2001) that competition from choice generates «a rising tide that lifts all boats.»

The man who lifted it into the rescue boat was a fellow passenger, and a scholar.

One of many artists who came to the United States in the Mariel boat lift, Alfonzo quickly developed a following in this country.

«There is something kind of strange but great that there are environmental justice activists mixing with entrepreneurs and financiers who are all committed equally to building this clean economy that can lift all boats,» Danny Kennedy, Sungevity's co-founder and a former Greenpeace activist, told the crowd.

When you're the grandson of a Cuban woman who braved the Straits of Florida in the Mariel boat lift, risk taking is clearly in your blood.