Word: lift
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...tough policy could also push the Russians into the arms of the European Space Agency, already competing with the U.S. for commercial launch services. The Europeans now control 60% of that business. Says a congressional space analyst: "If they were to add the Russians' heavy-lift capabilities, it would make the U.S. a second-rate power in space...
UNITED NATIONS--Iraq pleaded yesterday for the United Nations to lift trade sanctions that Iraq contends have contributed to the deaths of thousands of people by cutting off essential food and medicine...
Since soldiers overthrew Haiti's first freely elected President five months ago, restoring a functioning democracy has not proved easy. Last week, in an attempt to lift the crippling economic embargo imposed on the military-backed government by the Organization of American States, top politicians of the hemisphere's poorest country struck a complex deal at OAS headquarters in Washington...
Freshman Jennifer Kearney gave the Crimson a lift, finishing second in the mile at the H-Y-P's with a time...
...jail by fighting again and donating his take to Indiana rape centers. This scenario will not unfold, even if Tyson could find an opponent (Holyfield, says his promoter, Dan Duva, will not fight Tyson). Bert Randolph Sugar, publisher of Boxing Illustrated, gives three reasons: "The state athletic commissions will lift his license. No hotel chain will sponsor it. And the event would have no advertising. You just can't see the announcer saying, 'And in this corner, the convicted rapist . . . Mike Tyson...