Word: lift
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Disturbed by the negative reaction of the business community to the University's sale of $50 million in Citicorp notes after the bank open a line of credit to South Africa. Putnam abandoned his customary behind-the-scenes posture to take a leading role in advocating that the Corporation lift its blanket prohibition against investments in banks that loan money to South Africa...
...figure, when applied to $608,200, is rather dangerously near the (informal) project budget, especially if the cost of the mandatory ramp and lift is counted...
...didn't do anything immoral. In fact we invested a good deal more money than was required in order to comply with the spirit of the law, not just the narrow technical requirements." Tucker said, explaining that "three nice handicapped apartments, a lift, a ramp, and other accoutrements" were provided...
...week's end the pall of shock and fear had begun to lift slightly. The Pope improved enough the day after the shooting to take Communion at a Mass said in his room by Monsignor Dziwisz, receive brief visits from some Vatican prelates and speak to his doctors. Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, the Dean of the College of Cardinals and one of John Paul's visitors, reported that the Pope has "no resentment in him, but complete forgiveness toward" his would-be killer. Francesco Crucitti, a surgeon at the Gemelli hospital, said he had asked the Pontiff whether...
This parting concord was remarkable considering several recent storms in trans-Pacific relations. Only a week before his departure for the U.S., Suzuki allowed that he had been "bewildered" by Washington's decision to lift the grain embargo against the Soviet Union and angered by the American failure to consult his government "sufficiently in advance." Suzuki's countrymen were also outraged when a U.S. submarine in April collided with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea and then inexplicably left it to sink and two crew members to die. The resolution of a third and longer-standing...