Word: lifting
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...more satisfying discovery--that gene expression can be modified by experience--has been gradually emerging since the 1980s. Only now is it dawning on scientists what a big and general idea it implies: that learning itself consists of nothing more than switching genes on and off. The more we lift the lid on the genome, the more vulnerable to experience genes appear...
...that we did not want ... has taken place. We cannot undo history. We are now in a situation where we must take action for the sake of the Iraqi people." GUNTER PLEUGER, German ambassador to the U.N., after the Security Council voted to lift sanctions on Iraq...
...that cities are laying off firefighters. If Bush doesn't provide one, a Democratic candidate who laid out an aggressive federal plan to figure out exactly what state and cities need and then provide the resources to do it would make many Americans sleep easier at night - and lift some of the weight of uncertainty off the economy...
...There was some good news: the French and Russians finally allowed the U.N. to lift economic sanctions on Iraq. And some not-so-good news the same day: Wolfowitz visited the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was a study in subdued opacity when it came to the Iraq reconstruction plan. In fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel was an exception. He asked, simply: Why was former General Jay Garner so quickly replaced by former diplomat L. Paul Bremer...
...This is a compromise, and in a compromise, no one gets all that they want." Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General, after the U.N. Security Council voted to lift economic sanctions on Iraq...