Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have not come to the finish line, just the first lap," said Steven Tierney, the group's other co-chair, drawing attention to domestic partnership legislation and health care bills regarding AIDS that are under consideration...
...would someone from Carmichael, Cal., come to Harvard to play water polo? One wonders why this same water polo player from Carmichael, Cal, did not swim a lap when he was in Germany for two years...
Immediate Family reminds viewers that serious actors do not have to be type-cast. Before realizing Close once played Big Chill-type roles, audience members expect her to be holding a knife instead of a birthday present in her lap at the movie's start. And where is the whiskey-swigging adventurer Woods plays in Salvador...
Steering issues away from federal courtrooms is what the Justices' conservative thrust seeks to accomplish. "This is a court that is happy to throw social issues back into Congress's lap," says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It wants legislatures to spell out how laws should apply." The attitude appalls many liberals, who argue that the basic purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the weak and unpopular from the tyranny of majority rule by legislatures. But the court's deference toward the political branches cheers many conservatives. "That's democracy," insists court commentator Bruce...
...matter how safe the seat, it cannot help a youngster sitting on an adult's lap. "A small child sitting unrestrained on a plane becomes a little missile when the aircraft hits severe turbulence," observes Northwest Airlines spokesman Bob Gibbons. Turbulence of the kind that recently jolted a Miami-bound American Airlines jet and injured 45 people poses more of a hazard to the average traveler than does the possibility of a crash...