Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than six years--a rarity in the harsh economic climate of today's jazz world. On a set of standards sprinkled with Terrasson originals, the trio plays softly and sparely, at times swinging as much by implication as by force. Melodies have a way of slithering unexpectedly out of laid-back, nearly ambient grooves, heard as if for the first time. It's a rich, delicious sort of minimalism. Listen on headphones, and you can hear the audience sigh...
WASHINGTON: In Congress, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Marty Meehan laid one more beating on the dead political horse that is campaign finance reform Thursday. And though the Shays-Meehan bill passed the House by a rousing 252-179 vote -- surviving repeated attempts by the GOP leadership to water it down -- the bill is going to die in the same place that its Senate equivalent did earlier this year: right at Trent Lott's feet...
...blood vessels rupturing in her gut, but the way she was feeling, she didn't have to. Lowery had been sick for five days, growing steadily worse as the week wore on. First had come the stomach pains. Then the bloody diarrhea. Then the paralyzing cramps. She had laid off food for a while, figuring the problem would pass. It didn't. Finally, as July 4 approached--when Lowery should have been at the Alpine, Wyo., gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence Day weekend such a busy...
Nigeria's military ruler has laid his cards on the table: He'll hand over the reins of power to an elected civilian government next May. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar announced Monday night that an elected government would take over on May 29, 1999, replacing the discredited political and electoral machinery established by his predecessor, General Sani Abacha. "The handover to civilian rule has been the key demand of the opposition," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "Indications had been that the military planned to indefinitely postpone the transition, and opposition groups weren't going to stand for that." If they believe...
...originator of the single-sex Christian rally, Promise Keepers created a sensation with its enormous get-together in Washington last October. But that spectacle belied the organization's bleak finances, and P.K. soon announced it was shredding a projected $117 million budget. At the end of March, it laid off its paid staff of 345. At the Washington rally, the head Promise Keeper, Bill McCartney, boldly announced that P.K. would drop the $60 attendance fee, which provided nearly three-quarters of its income, in hopes of bolstering attendance...