Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reached for the sword. Most took Croce to task for not seeing the work (though, of course, if she had not made the provocative gesture of writing about a work she refused to see, her piece would have lost some of its eclat). New York Times columnist Frank Rich laid down the lines of the dialogue on the op-ed page. "aids is responsible for yanking death out of the American closet," he wrote. "This is the story of our time. Amazingly, Ms. Croce missed...
...guilt laid upon these students from their parents and peers weren't enough, some even transfer that guilt to all Asians in general. One student claimed that she felt "a very real duty to her race" to study ethnicity. She let the burden of her race weigh too heavily upon her own shoulders: "I think whether of not you want that responsibility [to effect change for Asian Americans], you have it." Again, the hapless Asian paradigm of self-sacrifice for the collective. Where is the thought behind the decisions, the motivations coming from within, not being driven by the expectations...
...atmosphere here is pretty laid back," says Rachel A. Osten `96, an undergraduate researcher in high energy astrophysics. "Astronomers are very casual. Many wear jeans and burks...
Gates' strategy-as laid out in a series of public appearances over the past two weeks-certainly makes sense. Before the end of the year, Microsoft will begin offering "one-button" access to the Internet to anyone who buys Windows 95, the newest version of its wildly successful Macintosh-like point-and-click system (60 million copies sold). Given the Internet's well-deserved reputation as a difficult place to reach, Microsoft's promise of a one-stop, easy-to-use gateway ("just click on this button and you're there") is sure to attract a lot of first-time...
...listed as MIA, the U.S. has now firmly concluded that 2,156 are dead. Schlatter says the remaining 55 will likely be ruled dead as investigators collect more evidence. Even if that happens, a few Americans will remain unsatisfied. ``For some POW families, this issue will never be laid to rest,'' says Frances Zwenig, vice president of the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council. Even access to all of Hanoi's archives is not likely to change that...