Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being used for plane-refueling stops, prompting plans to build a $20 million U.S.-funded radar station on the country's Pacific Coast. And in Panama the effort to shut down money-laundering operations has met with limited success. American- installed President Guillermo Endara is resisting U.S. pressure to lift some bank secrecy laws for fear of damaging the industry...
...quickly appealed the ruling and on November 18, just one day after the last briefs were filed, the Supreme Court refused to lift the order. The court ruled 7 to 2 against CNN, with an unusual pair of justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Thurgood Marshall, dissenting...
...changes were set in motion last April, when pro-democracy protests toppled the King's handpicked government and he was forced to lift a ban on political parties. An interim coalition took office with a mandate to write a new constitution and hold elections for parliament within a year...
...story can be told: George Bush is a Democrat in disguise, a mole who has burrowed deep behind enemy lines for the sake of the party of the working stiff. It is the only logical explanation for the President's recent political behavior. Even top Democrats have begun to lift the veil on their mission impossible. "The President has been our best ally," says Paul Tully, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "We're just trying to stay...
...Strategic Defense Initiative survived with a $2.9 billion appropriation, $1.6 billion less than the Administration requested. While the Pentagon sought $1.7 billion for six C-17 cargo planes to improve the airlift capability that had been inadequate in the gulf deployment, Congress approved only $540 million. As for sea lift, which was also deficient, an extra $250 million was committed toward an unspecified number of faster ships...