Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton won a victory, though with no room to spare, when the Senate voted 50-50 not to lift the White House -- supported arms embargo against Bosnia. Senate minority leader Bob Dole, backed by most Republicans and some Democrats, went after the Clinton policy in an effort to give the besieged Bosnians more firepower to fend off the better armed Serbs. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers welcomed the vote as a confirmation of the President's Bosnia stance -- a policy, BTW, that candidate Clinton had railed against. Dole said he'd try it again.parpar
WASHINGTON -- France and other U.S. Gulf War allies are eager to win contracts to help rebuild Iraq and want the U.N. to lift sanctions against Baghdad so it can resume exporting oil. But PRESIDENT CLINTON opposes the move -- and not just because Iraq remains a threat. If Iraq starts exporting oil, Administration energy experts warn, the price for crude could fall by nearly half, to $11 per bbl. That would spell trouble for volatile and financially strapped oil exporters such as Russia and Saudi Arabia -- and for 60 oil-patch lawmakers, who begged Clinton for new tax breaks...
Even in the best of circumstances, the lift-off will not be pretty. Growth will stutter more than roar. And unemployment rates, which will reach an estimated 11.7% this year in the E.U. and 2.8% in Japan, will decline only after the economic recovery has been better established. Herewith, tidings from the various fronts...
...giant soccer ball. Near Detroit, agronomists from Michigan State University have covered the synthetic turf in the Pontiac Silverdome with 1,850 hexagonal chunks of specially grown, soccer-friendly grass. In Palo Alto, California, workers are nearly finished giving Stanford University's venerable stadium a $5 million face-lift...
...House blasted President Clinton's position on Bosnia by voting to lift the U.S. arms embargo against the Muslim-led government. The directive won by a wide margin and follows a similar measure passed by the Senate. The measure has no legal force in itself, but poses political problems for the President. The present White House stance is to reluctantly support the European-backed embargo and to carve up Bosnia into Serb, Muslim and Croat domains. This position is a reversal of Clinton's longstanding wish to provide arms to the underdog Bosnians. Until recently, the Administration "had thrown...