Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control and the Equal Rights Amendment. After roughly fifteen years of mailings, Viguerie has honed his prose into a weapon. Political "free discussion" streamlines into a crisp, readable text: paragraphs are short, ideas simple, and arguments emotionally and financially evocative. Evidently, Viguerie now thinks folks are ready to lift the Right's rhetoric out of the mailbox and into the bookmart...
...negotiated through excruciating marathon sessions in Algiers, Tehran and Washington that repeatedly threatened to end in impasse, the agreement requires the U.S. to renounce any intention to interfere in the internal affairs of Iran, to lift its embargo against trade with Iran, and to ask its allies in Europe to do the same. These provisions have already been carried out, although little American trade is expected to be resumed for quite some time. The U.S. also agreed to help locate any assets of the late Shah and his family in America and to freeze them while Iran tries to establish...
Princeton defeated a visiting UPenn contingent, 62-61, Saturday night to lift its own record to 3-0 and to give the Tigers a share of the Ivy League lead. UPenn, the preseason--and current--conference favorite, fell...
...happened, the Begin government's unbecoming exit was even accompanied by a last-minute scandal. The Knesset voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Cabinet Minister Aharon Abuhatzeira, head of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, so that he could face criminal indictment. Abuhatzeira had been under investigation for months as an alleged recipient of bribes in return for having funneled government funds to phantom religious institutions...
...Polish people, was marked by its simplicity. Approaching the Pope at the threshold of the papal library, Walesa dropped to his knees, kissed the papal ring and bowed his head. A devout Catholic who tries to attend Mass daily, Walesa at first resisted when the Pope tried to lift him from his knees. John Paul then ushered the union leader into the library for a half-hour private chat. One presumed topic of their conversation: how to keep the itchier members of Walesa's organization from touching off a Soviet invasion...