Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same day, 62 Senators on Capitol Hill voted to urge the President to tread into that territory and put an end to two decades of rancor with Vietnam. Although the Senate bill was nonbinding, its call to lift the 19- year-long embargo on trade with Vietnam offers Clinton license to take the politically sensitive step. The vote also provides the President with safe passage through a set of formidable obstacles strewn along the road to reconciliation; 2,238 of them to be exact -- the American soldiers whose fate in Indochina remains unsettled and whose families still demand that...
Sanders Theatre will also undergo renovations. The major focus of planners has been the theater's antiquated stage, which will be replaced by a larger version with rising rear sections for choral performances. A piano lift will also be installed...
...Robert McDonald of the Newton PoliceDepartment, which is assisting in theinvestigation, said investigators are still tryingto lift fingerprints and analyze the compositionof the bomb. But the investigators "don't have anysuspects to date...
...recommended that Santa straighten out his leg, letting the youngster sit upon it as he brings it back. Practice this. It is known as the Santa leg lift...
...crime. "There is absolutely no way the legislation is going to stop the bad guys from getting guns," argues Sergeant Robin Cook, a 14-year veteran of the Forest Heights, Maryland, police force. "With a lot of breaking and enterings, that's exactly what they're going for. They lift up the mattresses, they go through the closets, they're looking for handguns." Even a total ban on handguns wouldn't solve the problem, since there are already 67 million handguns (a total of 200 million guns of all types) in circulation. "What are you going to do?" Cook asks...