Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to turn on the pressure from Congress. Aerospace lobbyists helped circulate one letter for House members to sign and another for Senators, which urged then Secretary of State Warren Christopher to lift the arms-sales ban. The arms industry, which contributed more than $10.8 million during the 1996 campaign season, had no problem collecting signatures. The 78 Representatives and 38 Senators who signed the letters received more than $1 million from PACs controlled by Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas and the major subcontractors for the F-16 and F/A-18. The million-dollar letters jolted Christopher. He had paid little attention...
...first period and never trailed in the contest, although the score was tied 4-4, 5-5, 7-7 and 8-8 before J.C. Ruid (F, Univ. of Vermont) finally tallied what turned out to the game-winner at 15:49 in the third period to lift the home team to victory...
...Kilmer's bad rep is a bad rap. "We knew all the horror stories," he says, "and I can only presume some may be true. But he was never like that with me." Noyce took the actor's suggestions about Simon's elaborate disguises (they give the film a lift and an edge) and pumping up the romance. "The truth is that we made a different film from the one Paramount financed," Kilmer says, "and they went along with it." They also paid for a new ending, shot in January, after preview groups nixed a death scene for Shue...
From meetings with the Dean of the Kennedy School to a teach-in immediately following the incident, Boule and other students set a campus-wide example through direct action and an effort to "create forums for discussion"--to lift the veil of political correctness and expose what lies simmering beneath the surface...
...music may be in white America's homes, but the violence is in black America's neighborhoods. That's why we, the hip-hop generation, bear the ultimate responsibility for reshaping the art form we love. Hip-hop used to lift us above the struggles we faced; then it tried to inform us about the struggles we faced; now it's become one of the struggles we face. I used to tell myself that the "thug life" portrayed in the music was just fiction. Now it's incontrovertible fact. We can do better than this...