Word: laid
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...rebuttal, Democrats produced 300 pages of their own that turned the Republican version upside down. The reappearing billing records, for instance, are laid to a confused assistant and a White House construction crew. Because G.O.P. members could find no hint of wrongdoing by the President, the minority report charges, they decided to pile on Hillary...
...master was more circumspect. "She was nothing to explode in the air about," Karolyi says. Dimitry, undeterred, moved the family close to the gym. During the next 18 months, he commuted weekly to Florida to run a used-car lot. When he finally found a job in Houston, he laid down only one condition: "I have to travel for Dominique's meets...
...Wilson, 67, has used the study of minute creatures as a springboard for two crucial ideas. The first, expounded in 1967 in The Theory of Island Biogeography, which he wrote with the late ecologist Robert MacArthur, provides the scientific bedrock for understanding the decline of ecosystems. The second concept, laid out in his 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, argues that social behaviors ranging from warfare to altruism have a genetic component. Cornell biologist Thomas Eisner describes Wilson as one of the "prime synthesizing minds in the world today...
...Federal Reserve Board chairman, the leaders of Congress, the chiefs of industry and communication--these are the men who can, in the end, still dictate where money is spent, how troops and workers get deployed, which programs and movies are distributed, who gets promoted and who gets laid off, which factories are closed and what happens to interest rates and insurance premiums...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: New Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, elected Wednesday, insists that he will concentrate first on filling Bob Dole's shoes, rather than changing the style of the Senate: "Our agenda will be the same as Bob Dole laid out for us." Lott, whose manner is tougher than Dole's, reassured reporters after the Senate vote that he will not set a more combative tone in his chamber. TIME's James Carney reports: "Even though Lott retains close ties to the House, especially to Newt Gingrich who studied at his knee, he has become wise to the ways...