11.   Governed for the first time by a postwar generation, Germany clearly feels ready to lift the veil from the past.

12.   He has a mentor with a Super Bowl ring and a girlfriend who helped lift the veil of shyness.

13.   Her goal in writing her candid story was to lift the veil of secrecy and embarrassment.

14.   In Afghanistan, women are lifting their veils, men are cutting their beards and television is creeping back into the lives of the less impoverished citizenry.

15.   Loophole scurries over to the woman in the case, quickly lifts her veil.

16.   Now, in preparation for selling stock to the public, Goldman has lifted the veil a bit.

17.   She fears letting Collin lift the veil to eat.

18.   She watched one day in a market as a woman lifted the veil to inspect an item that she was buying.

19.   The Ford Motor Co. has lifted the veil shrouding its severance agreement with Jacques A. Nasser, its former chief executive, but only by a half-inch.

20.   The other day Kamen lifted the veil on his invention, which had been code-named IT and Ginger.