Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While the Arab states tried to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for its intransigence, Syria, at the behest of the Saudis, sent to Tehran a delegation headed by Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam. He reportedly carried a Saudi offer to try to press Iraq to lift its siege of Iranian oil ports if Khomeini would agree to negotiate. The Iranians rejected the idea. As a U.S. diplomat put it: "No one has cracked Khomeini. He hears but he doesn't listen...
...panicky flight of foreign capital from the U.S. could lift American interest rates. High on the list of victims would be the 15 Latin American countries that are some $335 billion in debt. Brazil, which owes $96 billion, has an extra $750 million added on to its annual interest bill each time the U.S. prime and other international lending rates rise by a percentage point. De Vries suggested that the banks, together with the International Monetary Fund, should consider setting up a revolving loan pool to be used by Latin American and other countries to cope with escalating interest rates...
...face-lift was necessary. Yale was next on the agenda. A year ago, the Bulldogs had been hapless. The Crimson had downed them by 38 points. No less, 38 points. Could Harvard revive that sweet taste of victory? Nobody knew for sure, yet the tracksters hoped for the best. For sure...
...House is getting a total face-lift. The new master can customize the House to his own needs and to the needs of the students coming in," Stephens said...
Churchill had a string of spectacular failures as well as successes. So did Franklin Roosevelt in domestic policy during his struggle to lift America out of the Depression. John Kennedy's first year was one of almost continuous defeat, but fortunately, it was a year also marked by unceasing experiment in diplomacy and military improvement. In the American legend, the discouragements with men and War heaped on Abraham Lincoln in his early years of the Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least...