Word: lap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ferrer called on Deputy Art Director Arthur Hochstein, who began experimenting with designs in July. Late last week, as he labored over the final layouts for the project, a harried Hochstein described his state of mind by reaching for -- what else? -- an Olympics metaphor. "I am on the last lap of my own marathon," he said. We're happy to report that he finished with a flourish...
...speak with journalists. When he finally granted an interview to the Saudi Arabian newspaper Asharq al Awsat, a bile of irritation coated his words. He was never consulted before King Hussein cut Jordan's links with the West Bank last month, he complained. Yet that move dumped into his lap the responsibility for administering the occupied territory and for trying to recover it from Israel...
...trying to relate to it," says Oprah, a lavender dressing smock draped over her shoulders and a stack of clippings and notes in her lap. "Do most people deal with this in their day-to-day lives...
Judis, an editor at the leftward newsmagazine In These Times, fosters this and like assessments without endorsing them. He is more definite in his conclusion: since conservatism triumphed with the election of his pal Ronald Reagan, Buckley has lost his competitive urge. The last lap of the 20th century may provide a new liberal challenger, but until then we are left with a small irony. Reagan, the former actor, entered the White House at about the same time that Buckley, the political activist, began changing into an entertainer...
WHILE the report's changes are admirable, they fail to address the chief reason for the K-School's violation of Harvard's ethical guidelines. The report is remarkable for its failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...