Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official laid out four basic points Clinton would make. First, he would stress -- without a trace of irony -- that the U.S. must follow through on its repeated public threats of invasion to preserve "American credibility." Second, Clinton would lay out human-rights abuses in Haiti. "Bodies are found every day in gullies," said the official. The President will make it clear that "there is a different standard for savagery next door than brutality on the other side of town...
Vallier also has upset others such as Murphy, who preferred the more laid-back style of former administrator Brian D. Sinclair...
...writer-director Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) highlights four young women in the episodic Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life. For them, romantic yearning is like an image of lovers on a drive-in movie screen: huge and fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds on the gorgeous, thoughtful faces of Marlo Marron and Salma Hayek, beauty becomes truth -- the repository of hope and despair...
...financially-iffy EuroDisney theme park, but could they succumb to the allure of . . . Disneyland Paris? So goes the thinking of EuroDisney officials, who said today they hoped the new moniker would draw tourists visiting the French capital to the site, just 45 minutes by train. A Disney spokesman laid the plan bare: "We want to build more on the obvious synergy between Paris and Disneyland...
That is at least in part why phone companies like Pacific Bell, which has already laid 350,000 miles of fiber-optic cable, are eagerly waiting to purchase a new generation of fast video "servers" that squeeze movies and other programming down to the right size and deliver them to customers virtually on demand. Hewlett-Packard and other manufacturers are scrambling to roll out such servers by next year at prices of up to $20 million...