Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading foe of the ERA, charging that the International Women's Year conference in Houston was dominated by "militant Marxists" and "lesbians." He claims that President Carter sold out to the Russions by cancelling B-1 Bomber production. He led an unsuccessful fight to lift the Rhodesian chrome import ban. His proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion was so strong that it basically outlawed...
...American policy to lift the dollar will have to overcome that past mistake because worldly bankers and investors are very skeptical about the commitment of the Administration, and they have adopted a "show me" attitude. Quipped one top banker at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington last week: "He who talketh down the dollar cannot talk it back up." Of course, the stability of the American economy and the world financial system demands a decisive policy that goes much beyond talk. It should be a threefold strategy, of immediate steps to stem the dollar...
...serious bargaining only after he is convinced that "he cannot count on support from the U.S. and Britain." Two recent events, however, may have reassured Smith that in the final pinch the West will come to his aid: 1) a recent congressional attempt to require the U.S. to lift sanctions against Rhodesia by the end of 1978; and 2) disclosures that past British governments looked the other way when oil companies violated a ban on petroleum shipments to Rhodesia. Nyerere professes to be unconcerned about the past. "The international community can see what's been happening. I leave...
...country's most impoverished community, he had founded technical schools, sports centers and medical clinics for the poor. He had repeatedly attempted to head off bloody sectarian strife. In 1975, during the Lebanese civil war, he interrupted an antiwar hunger strike to persuade Muslim guerrillas to lift the siege of a Christian village, and thus averted a massacre. Last week many of his followers were praying that Moussa Sadr was carrying out a 1,200-year-old prophecy that Shi'ite Imams who disappear will one day reappear to usher in an era of peace and prosperity...
These new moves may help, but, they are not likely to narrow the wide gap by very much. At first, the Administration had hoped that the cheaper dollar would lift U.S. exports, and to a very limited degree it has done so. Nonetheless, two problems continue to bedevil U.S. trade...