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...annually to the United Kingdom. But since the war, a British embargo on Argentine imports has outlawed trade between the nations. Last week, as he embarked on a three-day visit to Brazil, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the House of Commons that Britain had decided unilaterally to lift the trade embargo. Howe, whose announcement coincided with the anniversary of last year's unsuccessful efforts to renew relations with Argentina, urged the government of President Raúl Alfonsín to join with Britain in new trade agreements...
...dreams all run together. Feed the world. Make a joyful noise, raise a ruckus and millions of dollars. Lift a voice. Lend a hand. Come to Wembley Stadium, in London. Go down to John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Turn on the television. Be a part...
...built a hierarchical organization that Adams might well admire. McFarlane retains independent access to the President on foreign policy problems, or did before Reagan's surgery. But otherwise, says one veteran of Reagan's first term White House staff, "Don has asserted himself so that nobody is able to lift a finger without his blessing...
...letter: "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response." Erupting from a church history that either ignored nuclear weapons or, in the nationalistic enthusiasms of some clergymen, saw such weapons as new arms for Christian soldiers, the bishops suddenly leaped forward: "We cannot avoid our responsibility to lift up the moral dimensions of the choices before our world and nation." They emphasized that they were speaking purely from a moral pulpit, "as pastors, not politicians." No sooner had they spoken, however, than many conservative American Catholics, among others, faulted their logic: the moral issue of the Bomb could...
...train his anus to speak instead of fart is just one of a multitude of Oskar’s fantasized inventions. Another is a birdseed shirt, so that when wingless humans need to “make a quick escape,” birds, pecking at the seed, can lift the wearer away from danger. A third is an elevator which stays in the same place while the skyscraper it serves moves up and down so that “if you’re on the ninety-fifth floor, and a plane hits below you, the building could take...