Word: lapsing
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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...
The sad truth is that a significant sector of the population laps up this dreck. When I was dragged to see "Phantom of the Opera" a while back in L.A., I met someone who had seen it more that 100 times. Lest I imagine that she was some lone freak...