Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proud of Kennedy's role in the Senate as a champion of civil rights and women's equality. But those fights have largely been won and now the battle has moved to different fronts. Today, the pressing question is how to lift up the underclass. On this issue, Kennedy offers little that hasn't already been tried unsuccessfully...
...break out last week in the United Nations Security Council, Bill Clinton's most outspoken foreign-policy official unblinkingly held her own. The ruckus was touched off by Saddam Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador to the U.N. "Words are cheap," she bluntly...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in Morocco for a first-ever economic summit between Israel and Arab states, said the Arab League may lift the 43-year-oldeconomic boycott of Israelnext spring. "There is growing recognition" that the boycott is "really a relic of the past and ought to be consigned to the history books," Christopher said. Saudi Arabia and five Persian Gulf emirates led the way in September by deciding to stop discriminating against companies that do business with Israel...
...that any relief to working Americans should be financed by politically difficult cuts in entitlement programs like Medicare. Sinai estimated that the tax break itself might amount to $25 billion. While that would have little impact on the $5 trillion U.S. economy, it could give Bill Clinton a political lift from the group of Americans whom he championed as a candidate...
...stemmed partly from the fact that the Treasury is due to auction off $28.25 billion worth of two- and five-year notes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Traders apparently feared that this influx of new issues could drive prices down, and yields up, especially with the Federal Reserve expected to lift short-term rates again as soon as next month. In response, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 36 points to 3855.30 on moderate trading (N.Y.S.E. volume: 282 million shares). The S&P 500 fell 4.06 to 460.83. NASDAQ stocks dropped 4.17 to 761.21. And that 30-year Treasury ended...