Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regulation would make travel safer for the 5,000 to 10,000 infants who board airplanes daily, it could make it more expensive. In many cases, parents will have to purchase an extra ticket for their baby, who currently flies free if seated on an adult's lap. But Air Transport Association President Robert Aaronson speculated that tickets for these tots might be free on underbooked planes or heavily discounted. "If you buckle up your child at 50 m.p.h.," he asked, "why not at 550 m.p.h...
...explained that the war of the Trumps has riveted the media's attention "because it revolves around lust, power, money, sex. A man who was successful, who's written books or had books written for him, and now he's got a little mud on his shoes. People just lap...
...history, in the college-formatted segment of history encased in Books, is that it is badly written. Badly written: boring, numbing, abstruse, statistical, dessicated, inhuman. Learning about the lives and actions of the human race through the bloodless method of sitting still with a sheaf of pages on your lap is difficult enough, but if the writing is also uninspiring...