Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front page a classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push to expand NATO eastward rapidly and to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, which he said would strain the alliance "to the limits...
...remark might have been uncharitably cynical were the official not standing directly across from the National Palace. While that building's facade has also been given an impressive face-lift to honor the Oct. 15 return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the state of affairs inside Haiti's house of state is considerably shabbier. The departing military-backed government ransacked the palace so thoroughly that executives at the nerve center of Haiti's government now have no vehicles, computers or typewriters, almost no pencils, only one toilet -- and just $11.5 million in the treasury on Aristide's return...
...never mind. Perhaps he was succeeding handsomely at counseling overweight women and should have been promoted instead of being let go for breaking a trivial rule. We are asked to believe that these men's having to listen to jokes about push-up bras or being asked to lift a heavy box makes for a winning case and worldwide media attention, when women have been listening to penis jokes and making coffee for decades. Sure, complaints about failing to be promoted simply because they were men in a women's world are serious. But before the Jenny Craig Eight pour...
Appeals Court Associate Justice Christopher J. Armstrong refused to lift a restraining order that bars Question 9 from taking effect...
...instinct is to say we do have before us a serious constitutional challenge," Appeals Court Associate Justice Christopher J. Armstrong said after listening to both sides. Declining to lift the temporary restraining order immediately, Armstrong said he will issue his decision today...