Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George Stephanopoulos, however, foresaw Democratic opportunity. Looking over the Republican agenda last fall, Stephanopoulos, economic adviser Gene Sperling and First Lady Hillary Clinton predicted that the G.O.P. would become vulnerable when the time came to make the painful choices necessary to balance the federal budget by 2002. And they laid an ambush line down at Medicare, the $176 billion health-care program for the elderly that is among the budget's most politically sensitive items...
...Their work has laid the foundation for important advances in the treatment of disease," according to a media advisory...
...last shooting of the season and one of Crichton's assistants took us, he said." "It was a pretty laid back set and we got to meet actor George Clooney," he said...
...best synthesist of them all, however, is Landreth, 43, a long-haired, laid-back bottleneck ace whose virtuosity evokes comparisons with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. A long-time sideman for such musicians as John Hiatt and John Mayall, the Mississippi-born, Lafayette-bred Landreth also played with Chenier in his prime. His first major-label solo album, 1992's Outward Bound, displayed a brilliant command of styles, including Chet Atkins-style flat picking, Delta blues and slide guitar. His most recent album, South of I-10 (referring to the interstate that bisects Louisiana), is even better. Creole Angel...
Decked out in gangster regalia and bimbo attire, the Cabotians preened and strutted the two hours away, smiling at their friends in the audience and playing to the crowd. The show, while perhaps not musically invincible, was entertaining--precisely because it was so laid back...