Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment though, Nawaz Sharif is hoping for a more earthly kind of intervention: he is in New York City this week at the United Nations, where he will appeal to Bill Clinton to lift economic sanctions--imposed after the nuclear tests--and push the International Monetary Fund into mounting a rescue. As part of the trade-off, Clinton wants him to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty. This may help him get the money he urgently needs, but would anger fundamentalists at home who would see this as capitulation and surrender...
...Baghdad late in 1990 in an effort to rescue his friend Saddam Hussein and head off the Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone out of her way to maintain a good working relationship with him. Last July at a banquet in Manila, the two sang a parody of the duet from West Side Story...
Clinton's sober and, at times, tearful mood began to lift and approach the ebullient mode when he began shaking hands along a rope line in Omagh. The crowds, laughing and smiling, chanted, "We want Bill! We want Bill!" By the time he spoke in the ancient cathedral town of Armagh, the President was nearly back to his familiar, self-confident form. "Never underestimate the impact you can have on the world," Clinton said. "Thank you for the springtime of hope you have given the world. Thank you for reminding us of one of life's most important lessons--that...
Esprit de corps not withstanding, the Marine airmen involved in the Italian ski-lift accident last February have finally broken ranks: Capt. Chandler Seagraves has been granted immunity for his testimony about a videotape allegedly made during the fatal flight. But how did investigators scale the wall of silence that the four men had kept up for so long? Common sense...
...colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give the audience a visual lift, a visual thrill...