Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mediate a P.L.O. withdrawal and persuade the Israelis to lift their siege of West Beirut, Haig will be able to quit in fact as well as in name. (He left Washington last Thursday for a Fourth of July weekend in West Virginia, uncertain when, or if, he would be back.) But such a settlement will only bring a new set of problems to the fore. The U.S. will then have to work out some formula for an Israeli withdrawal from a neutralized Lebanon. The goal, after that, will be to revive the long-stalled negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinians...
...sexual abnormalcy is not in the Red Light District, where degenerates sing: "Whatever you dream of alone in bed. Come to us and we will make it real instead." Nor is it the scene in the Nineveh Hotel (remember Jonah's destination), where the dancing girls offer. "We lift our legs for your masculine inspection. You can admire us without correction..." The best scene does not take place until Alan Norman loses the innocent manner with which he has made his quest and makes love to the beautiful Miss Vipond, played by a shopwindow dummy. Driscoll's fall from purity...
...Infra-Red Telescope (IRT), scheduled to fly on the shuttle's "Space Lab?" mission in November 1984, has been "three years away from" a scheduled flights since 1977. The IRT is now scheduled for lift-off in less than two-and-a-half-years...
...White House aide who helped prepare the talk: "You might say that we let Reagan be Reagan." Interestingly, when the President told NATO leaders in Bonn of his desire some day to see Soviet negotiators sitting at the table with the U.S. and its allies, talking about ways to lift the Third World out of poverty, one lieutenant had also hailed that talk as a glimpse of "the real Reagan...
American retailers wish there were a lot more people like Patricia Goodson around these days. Such a free-spending attitude would help lift the economy from the painful recession that has gripped the U.S. since last July. Economists agree that the consumer is the most important factor behind the rebound that many expect to start in the summer. Says Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department: "The consumer is going to have to bring us out of this recession. The other major sectors of the economy aren't going to contribute much, if anything...