Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offer, complaining that it infringed on Iraq's sovereignty.TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelosays Saddam is unlikely to back down from that stance unless he is given a way to "save face." The U.N. wants to deflect criticism that Iraqi residents are suffering from the sanctions, but still refuses to lift them because itsuspects Iraq is making biological weapons...
...find that it had disappeared: he credits a prayer wheel of more than 3,000 people that his wife, a Charismatic, organized. Leslie Smith recalls hurtling down a steep hill on her bike when she was seven years old. She began to slip off the seat--and felt hands lift her back up onto the bike. Dorothy Pederson, the most skeptical in the room, believes a miracle saved her husband's life after a brutal mugging in a hotel room seven years ago. John Lashley has had six strokes and two heart attacks. Twice, he says, he was pronounced dead...
French government officials today proposed that the U.N. should lift the ban on oil sales by Iraq. The U.S. has vowed to veto any such proposal in the Security Council...
Glen Rice's layup with 1.8 seconds remaining to lift Miami, 97-95. Page...
...there they go again. A gang of nine Republican hopefuls and hopelesses went up to Manchester for the kickoff dinner at the Holiday Inn and announced that, yes, they are conservative ever and always, my heavens, yes, and are the ones to lift the terrible yoke of government from the people's shoulders, and, no, the words tax increase never cross their lips without a sense of deep personal revulsion, and, yes, they are looking forward to visiting New Hampshire often in the weeks and months ahead. So here we are, back in the dark vale of self-abasement that...