Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RALLY WAS JUST WHAT GERRY Adams needed to lift his spirits. When he was introduced to 300 supporters crammed into a community center in West Belfast, they all jumped to their feet, cheering, clapping and whistling. Standing in front of a black wall with real negotiations now written on it in bold white letters, Adams launched into a long speech attacking the British for bad faith and pleading for renewed efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. His mood was feisty and buoyant...
...crash this month led the Navy to order a three-day worldwide halt of all F-14 flights. "There's not much room for error, and once you get into trouble, it's hard to get out. The plane is underpowered, and the main wing provides a lot of lift, but is very long in relation to the length of the fuselage. The performance envelope is just very narrow; its an unforgiving airplane." This most recent crash of the multi-million dollar airplane occurred in the Persian Gulf early Thursday, and caused no loss of life. Last Sunday another...
...patient is dying? The Administration may have called it a "humanitarian" mission, but this was old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy: send in the Marines, depose a government you don't like, install a friendlier one and leave the natives to fend for themselves. Any impulse of Clinton policymakers to actually lift Haiti out of political, social and economic destitution--what is widely derided as "nation building"--was fatally tainted by the American fiasco in Somalia. "We achieved the objectives we aimed for," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, "so from our point of view it has been a success...
...hussies pushes him down the stairs on his skates. He gets to ogle kinky calisthenics before being chased by an inflexible feminine mob. He gets to squeeze into a convertible with a bunch of babelicious teenyboppers before they try to make roadkill out of him. He catches a lift from a clucking, jowly matron on a motorbike who pins him down in the seedshed and tries to rape...
Researchers have developed a blood test to measure leptin, a hormone that tells the brain to stop eating. Doctors hope to help people slim down by boosting their leptin levels; with the new test, they can pinpoint those who need a leptin lift...