Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought of his words as the Howard University choir led the congregation in singing Lift Every Voice and Sing, long known as the Negro National Anthem, at the conclusion of the service that was held at the National Cathedral the day after the Supreme Court's memorial ceremony. As the pallbearers slowly rolled the Justice's casket across the cathedral's floor, I imagined that he would have especially appreciated this stanza...
...only it were so. Just when he wanted to focus "like a laser beam" on the economy, Clinton was sidetracked for five days by a once obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse...
...Clinton aide insisted last week that the crisis had been "completely unavoidable" ever since Clinton first promised to lift the ban in a speech in Boston in October 1991. But a close look at how Clinton and his team tried in recent weeks to defuse the issue shows that the Administration has much to learn about the Washington political game. The Clinton team was simply unprepared to handle the powerful legislators, military brass and internal leakers who turned the gays-in-the-military debate into a disaster...
...Esposito quietly built the chamber 18 months ago beneath his home, a converted garage behind the house where he grew up. So well concealed that police posted on the property did not suspect it was there, the room could be reached only by using a block and tackle to lift a 200-lb. concrete trapdoor hidden beneath a carpet. Then it was necessary to climb down a 7-ft. ladder to a narrow passage that led to the mini-dungeon. Though it had only a camp toilet, the room was equipped with ventilation and a closed-circuit TV that enabled...
GEORGE BUSH WILL BEQUEATH BILL CLINTON MESSES IN BOSnia, Iraq and Somalia, but the outgoing President hopes to have one situation pretty well cleaned up. Before leaving office, he may be able to lift the long-standing economic embargo against VIETNAM. Behind-the-scenes negotiations are under way, and Vietnam has already made commitments on some remaining critical issues, including access to POW/MIA records. Dissolving the embargo would enable U.S. companies to compete in the Vietnamese market with the Japanese and Australians already doing business there. If Clinton wants it, diplomatic relations could resume within six months...