Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lord says there are topics--namely gun control and abortion--that she doesn't address. "I'd be willing, but I'm not sure the paper would welcome my views," she says. In a similar fashion, she often finds herself hoping that exciting media events will fall into her lap when Harvard administrators would just as soon see the Yard free of television cameras and sound crews. Last spring, when rumors "were hot and heavy" that Reagan might turn up to give a Commencement speech, Lord appeared on Channel 5 to comment on negotiations between Massachusetts Hall and the White...
Still, after four years of traveling across 1.24 billion miles of space, there was no faulting Voyager 2's marksmanship. Indeed, one golf-minded scientist likened it to sinking a 500-mile putt. Superlatives were certainly in order last week as the semiautonomous robot completed the second lap of its epic flight: a rendezvous with the giant ringed planet Saturn, the spectacular finale to two ambitious decades of planetary exploration by unmanned U.S. spacecraft...
...taking" their property without compensation. Furthermore, at least a dozen former hostages have filed damage suits against Iran, although Carter specifically waived their right to do so as part of the deal with Iran. Such corporate and individual claims may land right back in the lap of the Supreme Court...
...dragged Venus onto my lap. 'It's all over...
...next morning, race stewards stripped Unser of his third Indianapolis title and gave it to Mario Andretti, who had finished second. Unser passed eight or nine cars, violating a rule that bans drivers from improving their positions while a yellow caution flag is in effect. Unser was penalized one lap, moving Andretti up from second money ($168,674) to first ($262,424). Unser appealed the decision. He admitted he had passed the cars but called that infraction "common practice." Andretti viewed his second Indy victory ruefully: "Now I'll have to explain and apologize forever...