Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conditions for Departure. Once the Council is constituted and working smoothly. Balaguer promises to resign. But first two conditions must be met: 1) the Organization of American States must lift all diplomatic and economic sanctions, and 2) the Dominican Republic must be allowed to share again in the U.S. premium-price sugar market and in Alliance for Progress aid, both of which Washington has withheld as punishment for Trujillo's misdeeds...
...lift our lamp beyond the golden door and, without regard to politics, share our plenty with them...
...Lift Bans on Cuba...
Would His High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, toast Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth? This question of protocol stirred official Accra last week on the eve of the Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies...
...Time for Recouping. One big lift to U.S. exports will be provided by federal sponsorship of a new pool of private insurance companies to cover an exporter if one of his foreign customers goes broke or simply refuses to pay. Washington is also prodding its allies to buy more of their defense materials in the U.S. Major success so far: a recent West German promise to buy enough arms and ammunition in the U.S. to offset U.S. defense costs in Germany-some $600 million a year...