Word: lain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of discipline, stating only that all grievances will be given a full and fair hearing to be conducted promptly and in good faith. The issue is further complicated by the fact that the body established to enforce the resolution, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, has lain dormant for almost a decade and is a political red flag to some students because of conflicts surrounding its formation...
There is nothing lacking in President Reagan's vision. Where Ronald Reagan's instincts have been thwarted, where his policies have not succeeded, the problem has lain elsewhere. The problem, almost unspeakably complicated in its consequences, is very simple in its essential nature. It lies in an absence of discipline on the part of some of his advisers; there is no adequate structure to enforce discipline upon the system...
...lain among the wealth of original manuscripts in the cavernous New York Public Library for the past 30 years. Now Father Abraham, a short story by William Faulkner, is about to be published for the first time. Written in 1926, after his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, the story plots the origins of the Snopes family, who were to form the center of his Yoknapatawpha County trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion). Father Abraham, which was the start of a never finished novel, has been known to Faulknerian scholars for years. But curiously, no one had ever transcribed...
...past 30 years, the doctrine of deterrence has lain at the heart of America's--and the world's--strategic thinking. This doctrine holds that should any nation launch a nuclear attack, enough of its victim's missiles would survive to destroy the aggressor. Anything that threatens to neutralize or eliminate one side's nuclear forces endangers this hair-trigger balance...
...went to the games all the time," he says. But he adds that his loyalties haven't always lain where they do now. "I used to root for Boston University, and my father would root for Harvard," he says...