Word: lifting
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...aesthetic of distortion. But platform shoes have risen so high you could use them to drill for oil in the Gulf. They look spectacular, even crazy, and elevate foot fashion to the status of a major social hazard. A young woman in a car who tries to lift the great block on her right foot from accelerator to brake has become as dangerous as a gang member with a Glock...
...gain from rebuilding North Korea's decrepit economy - and its people nurture a deep, emotive desire to reunite the divided peninsula - the U.S. has more immediate concerns, such as stopping the North Korean missile and nuclear programs. Although Washington has committed itself, at South Korea's prodding, to lift many sanctions against North Korea, the U.S. perspective on the new d?tente will be shaped later this month when it resumes direct talks with North Korea over missiles. Long-term peace on the peninsula would certainly allow the U.S. to remove 37,000 troops from harm's way along the world...
...severe, chronic depression--some had been afflicted for 20 years--found that symptoms like loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping and general unhappiness were alleviated in an astonishing 85% of patients after just 12 weeks of therapy paired with daily doses of the antidepressant nefazodone. Now that's something to lift anyone's spirits...
...fast approaching a meeting with his maker, but many Chileans believe he oughtn't be allowed to die in peace. Although the decision has not yet been made public officially, a number of Chilean sources have indicated that Chile's Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 12-10 to lift the former president's immunity from prosecution, opening the way to a slew of prosecutions for kidnapping, torture, murder and other human rights violations during the general's 17-year dictatorship. Pinochet eluded a court date in Spain earlier this year when the British government ruled...
...this straight: The best way to undermine repressive communist states is to trade with them, allowing their people that heady whiff of freedom that floats aromatically off a Big Mac, forcing their governments to lift the economic shackles and unleash an avalanche of entrepreneurial creativity that makes nonsense of Marxism. Well, yes, and no - if you're Trent Lott, that is. According to the Senate Majority Leader and other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which...