Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal advisory panel called on the National Institutes of Health to lift its 15-year ban on embryo research -- a suggestion that's sure to anger the religious right. The panel stated that embryos "do not have the same moral status as infants and children," and that scientists should be allowed to conduct federally funded experiments on them -- albeit with strict controls. One of these, the panel recommends, is to limit research to embryos that are no older than 14 days, the time when a fetus begins to develop a nervous system. The NIH is expected to make a final...
...Cheney says. "Haiti's a mess. That's too bad. It was a mistake for us to begin the sanctions Clinton's continued. They only hurt the poor, the people who deserve better since we won't allow them into the U.S., which is the right policy. We should lift the embargo and focus on really important things, like rolling back North Korea's nuclear program...
...like to destroy three myths about education and learning that Harvard puts into the minds of its students. If you know that these supposed truths are merely myths, you may still have a fighting chance when the liberals lift you up and put you on the conveyor belt that leads into their factory. You may still emerge from Harvard with your conscience intact...
...warn against a backlash against the country's Asian communities. Last night, New South Wales state legislator John Newman, 47, was gunned down in front of his suburban Sydney home. Newman, who had received death threats while campaigning for years against Asian gang violence, recently asked police to lift surveillance on his home. Newman was shot twice in the chest and died on the steps of his house as his Chinese-born fiancee looked...
...disaffected keep coming in numbers sufficient to overflow Guantanamo, Clinton will have to look again at the options he has tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee...