Word: lifted
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...sector, there is little if any sense of emergency. most ministries are only skeletally staffed, and the country would probably still lack power and water if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had not overseen their restoration -- illustrating a dependency of little consequence to most Kuwaitis, who rarely lift a finger except to point it. Those who had hoped for a new Kuwait, a more democratic, self-reliant and purposeful society, have been forced to concede the obvious: the rush is in the opposite direction -- back to the past...
...without getting a satisfactory response. One question they might ask is whether the CIA link to B.C.C.I. explains the Justice Department's slowness in pursuing its case against the bank. Last year the Justice Department tried unsuccessfully to persuade the Florida state comptroller not to lift B.C.C.I.'s license to operate in that state...
...prompted by a new constitution that went into effect last week prohibiting the extradition of suspects in drug crimes. It is hard to believe the narcotics lords will truly mend their ways. Yet in Colombia the truce brought a sense of relief, allowing President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to lift a state of siege declared in 1984 after traffickers killed a government minister...
...Austria and Hungary are a major source of federal income. Slovenian information minister Jelko Kacin rejoined, "I state categorically that Yugoslavia no longer has a border with Italy or Austria." While Slovenia did demobilize 10,000 members of its forces and respond to federal demands to release prisoners and lift blockades around army bases, Kacin warned, "The war is not over...
Bush signaled last week that Pretoria was getting close. "Dramatic progress has been made," he said. "When the five conditions are met, we will lift the sanctions." White House officials say four of the requirements have been fulfilled and the fifth -- release of all political prisoners -- is in sight...