bootstrap

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Those who pull themselves up by the bootstraps should be able to attain a life materially more comfortable than their parents’.

From The Wall Street Journal

SilverSneakers represents just a small slice of that — the costs are not broken out by MedPAC — but it’s significant enough that the bootstrap venture has turned into a big business.

From MarketWatch

The president found a way to bootstrap from a 1930s eras statute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Migrating to another cloud provider or implementing a multi-cloud strategy would likely be too costly for a bootstrapped startup like his.

From The Wall Street Journal

The myth of individualism and “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” rarely stands a chance against those realities.

From Salon