• As we approached a steep hill, from which the Afghan policemen were firing rockets and Kalashnikovs into the village, Khalil told everyone in our group to lift our hands and weapons in the air, and he began calling out loudly, identifying us to the policemen above us, telling them to hold their fire.

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  • The Food and Drug Administration denied a petition Monday by a reproductive rights advocacy group that sought to lift all prescription requirements for an older version of the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill on the eve of a federal court hearing on the issue.

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  • The Center for Reproductive Rights, a liberal advocacy group that had sued to lift the restrictions, said that with the judge's ruling, science had prevailed over politics.

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  • The reservoir production group offers well services, completions and artificial lift technologies, subsea, water and carbon services activities.

    FORBES: Pronounce It 'Shlum-Bur-Zhay' And Value It At $106

  • The huge inflows will shore up the finances of the 12-member group, particularly as some Middle East countries lift social spending on the wake of the Arab Spring.

    CNN: OPEC cartel to reap record $1 trillion

  • The good news: 2010 is a World Cup year, which has the industry poised for a modest rebound, according to NPD Group, which is forecasting a 1% lift in sales for this year.

    FORBES: Sporting Goods Struggle

  • For the first time in its 133-year history the Wimbledon main draw featured no Englishman this year, but Golding heads a talented group of juniors who have the potential to help lift the gloom.

    BBC: British juniors shine at Wimbledon

  • Marseille -- the only French side ever to lift the trophy -- and FC Zurich of Switzerland complete the group.

    CNN: Barcelona to face Inter in Champions League

  • In February, a group of six moderate GOP congressmen sent a letter to Obama urging him to lift the funding ban.

    CNN: Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells

  • The group has recently made representations to the UK mail regulator Postcomm to be allowed to lift the price of its bulk business mail deliveries.

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  • In the House, "it's going to be a lift, " says Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a member of a bipartisan group developing a bill expected to be similar to the Gang of Eight's.

    WSJ: Fred Barnes: Immigration Reform Is Starting to Roll

  • Last night, we noticed a group of nervous-looking pilgrims in ihram standing defensively together as they waited for the lift to bear them to the upper reaches of the mall.

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  • Beijing News on Monday quoted people from the China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group as saying that the pits were dug to make room for a giant crane to lift away the rest of the carriages that remain on the overhead rail tracks.

    FORBES: In China Train Crash; Buried Evidence?

  • Then famously just as Rock Hudson was walking past with a group of elderly visitors he would rise straight up, water streaming down him, lift up his arms, open his fish mouth and ROAR!!!

    ECONOMIST: The Creature from the Black Lagoon

  • Pete Riley from campaign group GM Freeze says the Commission is under pressure from the US and the World Trade Organisation to lift the ban on the technology.

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  • For the first time in decades the group is overhauling fundraising and staging attention-getting gimmicks in a bid to increase individual donations and lift sagging sales in its 1, 550 U.S. thrift shops.

    FORBES: Charity Case

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