Word: lapsing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The story of Watergate didn't fall into their laps; they had to hunt for it in some places that were perhaps before perceived as private. Their methods were unorthodox, but not necessarily unprincipled. They discovered and revealed information that could have been harmful to the Post's readers had...
With two laps to go, however, he was in fourth place. Then Carswell turned on the afterburners.
While the score might indicate that Harvard swam laps around Dartmouth, the meet was closer than one might expect.
Rarely a week goes by without fair Harvard being mentioned in the local or national media. Most of the time, the University laps up the praise, whether it be a new appointment, a distinguished professor collecting another award or a new donation.
Such unknowns could throw billion-dollar decisions, and even the financial soundness of the firms that make them, right back into the laps of executives who could find themselves ill prepared to deal with what the rocket scientists have wrought. "These mathematical models, they are not dealing with statistically definable...