Word: lap
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Davis concluded, however, that the final decision was up to the individual registrar, and dumped the whole thing back into the lap of the Election Commission...
...other major exception to the rules fell in the lap of the U.S. steel industry. On orders from the White House, foreign steel became the only major industrial product that will be subject to both an import quota and an import tax surcharge. Sellers of nearly all other foreign products whose importation is formally restricted, notably oil, will not have to pay the 10% surcharge. When asked to explain the ruling, which amounts to double protection for domestic steel, COLC Executive Director Arnold Weber pointed out that the original White House explanation of the import surcharge did not contain...
...soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding another. According to one report from the Press Trust of India (P.T.I.), 50 refugees recently fled into a jute field near the Indian border when they heard a Pakistani army patrol approaching. "Suddenly a six-month-old child in its mother's lap started crying," said the P.T.I, report. "Failing to make the child silent and apprehending that the refugees might be attacked, the woman throttled the infant to death...
...caught a glimpse of John Harvard's statue through the Mass Hall gate and noticed that three students were sitting in his lap. Then we passed "Harvard Memorial Theater." and finally headed for our third and last 20-minute stop-the glass flower exhibit at the University Museum...
...Thieu forces' proclivity for strong-arming the opposition. As the elections near, there have been a number of examples of such tactics. Ky was recently locked out of a hall where he was scheduled to speak, and 23 of the last 25 issues of his newspaper, the Lap Truong, have been seized. A prominent anti-Thieu Deputy, Ngo Cong Due, was arrested for striking a provincial councilor who spat beer in his face...