Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What many readers who remember their own college days will find troubling in From Rockaway are the Camden College scenes--full of bleary-eyed dialogue, Dress To Get Laid parties, and a lot of action without much thought. Once again, Eisenstadt claims this was nothing like her own experience at Bennington, which she says she "liked a lot, but I'm sure everyone is picturing fictional Camden." She adds that "Bennington is really a very good school. I really worked very hard. I didn't have much of a social life there, which is funny considering how the book comes...
Chicago was chockablock with business seminars that week. Next door at the Marriott, muscular types in gold chains and shorts were studying health-club management. Downtown, engineers laid out a grand for four days of "Pneumatic Conveying for Bulk Solids." A company called the 1st Seminar Service lists 100,000 such seminars annually around the country. By its estimate, corporations send 8 million people a year for outside training, and think it is worth paying about $4 billion. The rustling sound of flip charts in action runs like a breeze through the cornfields from coast to coast...
...this isn't necessarily bad, for slow jams are one of the Jam/Lewis team's more recent specialties. Expertly smooth synthesizer work focusing on a pattern of three or four chimelike notes laid on top of heavily seductive slow rhythms, with horns thrown in here and there; it's a recipe they use in almost every song...
...threats of retaliation against any terrorists found with American blood on their hands carried a hollow ring on the all-too- frequent occasions when no evidence could be produced. But last week a carefully coordinated military operation in the gulf swiftly altered the image of U.S. helplessness. A well-laid trap caught Iran red-handed...
That the Harvard football team easily laid waste (35-0) to a sorry Columbia squad this weekend is good news for Harvard fans...