Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still have a lot to work on," DiMarzio said. "[But] it's a lift for us, definitely." Harvard 1 Yale...
Baghdad deploys its troops to force the U.N. to lift sanctions...
This survey is going to lift a huge burden off our backs. It was the idea of having to meet that quota every week that wore us out. Now, with the average down to one, a lot of us are going to be able to make three, four or five without a problem. The survey points to a pretty wide range of normality, but says clearly that monogamy is the good life, which we all knew, and that, despite the prurience of the Christian Right and the self-righteousness of Playboy, making love is a wonderful good time...
There is indeed a certain vagueness about how E.A.I. intends to lift scores and performance. There is much inspirational talk of "enhanced instruction, efficient management, greater parental involvement, individual attention for students." But the results are not yet in from the other E.A.I. laboratories, and in any case the Hartford experiment dwarfs them...
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev renewed efforts to ease sanctions against Iraq, taking his plea to the United Nations. Kozyrev argued that the U.N., despite U.S. objections, should lift an oil embargo on Iraq by May in exchange for Saddam Hussein's recognition of Kuwaiti sovereignty. (He also said Russia had received advance information on last week's desert maneuvers and reports that "Iraq was not planning to attack Kuwait.") The U.S. response: U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said "Iraq must not be led to choose in an a la carte way" among U.N. conditions for lifting sanctions...