Word: laid
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Coming out of halftime, the Crimson seemed transformed. Sophomore standout Armando Petruccelli, laid up for the past two weeks by injury, entered at midfield and lost little time changing the tenor of the affair...
...with Clinton in the Oval Office a few days before the State of the Union, Morris blew a gasket. He summoned Penn and Schoen to his house in Connecticut and told Penn that Clinton was his client, the White House his show. Penn could submit or get out. Morris laid down a new law: Penn could see anyone in the White House except the President. (Later, Morris came up with an even stricter rule: Penn had to be at Morris' side at every interminable, Morris-dominated meeting.) Schoen, the peacemaker, advised his partner to accept. "You do what...
...decline of housing for low-and middle-income families was a frequent topic of discussion, and several citizens laid blame on the expansion of hotels and affluent housing surrounding Harvard Square...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Poor people and their families have enough on their minds without having to worry that if they change jobs, or move, or get laid off, they'll lose coverage for those conditions because of a 'pre-existing condition' clause...
When Pierre L'Enfant's design was laid out, Washington was meant to be a haven of logic and order, with straight, broad thoroughfares befitting the capital of a new democratic nation. Under federal control since its inception, the District wasn't granted suffrage until the 23rd Amendment in 1961, and didn't obtain self-rule until 1974. In recent years, Washington once earned the dubious honor of being the murder capital of the U.S., and it mimics the Third World with its two distinct societies: the affluence of the mostly white northwest and the equally extreme poverty of mostly...