Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four years ago, the expansion seemed in imminent danger of coming to an end. But then a combination of rising exports and resurgent consumer spending helped give business a needed lift. A cut in interest rates might now keep things rolling...
...timing of Fang's departure was probably linked to next week's summit of the seven leading industrial countries. Beijing wants them to lift their partial ban on loans. Another motive: the Capitol Hill debate over whether to restore China's most-favored-nation status...
...this era of cynicism, such legendary figures have all but disappeared in the U.S. Martyrdom at an early age was necessary to lift John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to the status of secular saints. Mandela is unique among heroes because he is a living embodiment of black liberation. Like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer enjoying their own eulogies from a hiding place in the church, he can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring...
Since early this year, representatives of the University have been vigorously lobbying Congress and the Bush Administration to lift a federal law that bans people infected with the AIDS virus from entering the country without a special waiver...
...letter is a symbolic warning shot acrossthe bow of Congress," said James Brown, aspokesperson for the U.S. Public Health Service.Brown said that Sullivan plans to lift the travelrestrictions if the proposed legislation passes...