Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Scratch a critic and you'll get an admission that Schwarzenegger's films have the quality of ferocity. There is something in Arnold that sparks the pinwheeling imaginations of action directors. They get him to lift trucks, carry huge trees on his shoulder, upend telephone booths with little punks inside. In Mark L. Lester's puckishly violent Commando, he righteously kills dozens of people in his determination to save a single life; as one helpful woman observes of Arnold and his adversaries, "These guys eat too much red meat." John McTiernan's Predator (1987) twists another commando genre into...
...doesn't live in Poland. He makes his home in suburban Toronto, where he owns a computer company and heads the minuscule Libertarian Party of Canada. He won't even promise to move back to Poland if he wins this Sunday's runoff election. He does say he can lift his native land out of its present economic mess. He just won't say how. For good measure, he has said Poland should acquire nuclear weapons, the sooner the better...
...being used for plane-refueling stops, prompting plans to build a $20 million U.S.-funded radar station on the country's Pacific Coast. And in Panama the effort to shut down money-laundering operations has met with limited success. American- installed President Guillermo Endara is resisting U.S. pressure to lift some bank secrecy laws for fear of damaging the industry...
...quickly appealed the ruling and on November 18, just one day after the last briefs were filed, the Supreme Court refused to lift the order. The court ruled 7 to 2 against CNN, with an unusual pair of justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Thurgood Marshall, dissenting...
...changes were set in motion last April, when pro-democracy protests toppled the King's handpicked government and he was forced to lift a ban on political parties. An interim coalition took office with a mandate to write a new constitution and hold elections for parliament within a year...