Word: lifted
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...There's some renovation in Sanders [Theatre].We're improving the heating and the ventilation.We've installed a new piano lift," Lichten said."The stage will be refinished and it's slightlybigger...
...many Fed-watchers that he won't push to cut interest rates when the Fed convenes next month, as many stock and bond investors hope he will. ButTIME's Suneel Ratansays the current economic signals are now so confusing that even Fed members are waiting for the fog to lift. Even if they do not cut rates at the July meeting, Ratan reports, the governors may cut them at any time as more troubling economic news develops...
...Senate decisively approved the telecommunications reform bill, paving the way for local telephone,long-distance and cable companies to enter one another's businesses. The bill would also free the largest electric utilities to provide an array of telecommunications services, lift longtime limits on how many TV and radio stations one company may own, and remove an 83-year-old restriction on foreign ownership of telcom companies. If a similar House proposal passes, the result could be a free market bazaar that would -- asbill author Sen. Larry Pressler(R-S.D.) predicted today -- "result inlower telephone rates, lower cable rates...
TheBosnian army attacked Serb forces surrounding Sarajevoin the first stage of an attempt to lift the siege of the city. Government troops moved into the Serb-held town of Ilijas, 12 miles north of Sarajevo, and attacked Serb troops surrounding it. Shouting through bullhorns, Serb officers called desperately for reservists to help fight the 15,000 government troops beseiging their positions. "The whole region is in flames," said one Serb officer, adding that the Serb lines were holding "for now." In Sarajevo, state radio ordered citizens to stay indoors and equip shelters with food and water in preparation...
...that doesn't work, the old "lift and strike" proposal should be revived. That means "the coming redeployment should be a prelude to getting the U.N. troops out altogether," says Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. The Muslims would then be provided with heavy weapons, and air strikes would be employed while they learn to use them. Targets would include Serb military headquarters, munitions depots, arms factories, oil-storage facilities and bridges...