Word: lay
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Last week those hopes lay in rubble. Rather than risk losing power, Shamir chose to scuttle his peace diplomacy. He sidestepped a challenge to his leadership by embracing four conditions laid down by hard-line Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon and his allies and plainly designed to be unacceptable to the Palestinians. Most indigestible was a restriction barring the 140,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem from participating in the proposed elections. Shamir also agreed that Israel would not return any of the occupied territories to "foreign sovereignty," that the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
Liem and his wife are currently on an islandoff the coast of Washington state where he iscomparing the development of live-born fish withthose who lay eggs, said Ernest H. Wu '82, a fifthyear biology graduate student who works with Liem...
Since well before the Civil War, black Americans have been predominantly Protestant. Despite extensive outreach by the Roman Catholic Church, only 2 million of America's 54 million lay Catholics and 300 of the nation's 19,000 priests are black. Thirteen of 314 active Catholic bishops in the U.S. are black. The first black archbishop, Eugene Marino, was assigned to Atlanta only last year. Catholicism has not only had difficulty finding new recruits in the black community, it is even beginning to lose its grip on those few already in the fold...
...choice forces lay claim to a huge silent majority of America's public. Unfortunately, that silence in successive presidential elections has stacked the Supreme Court so that the overturning of Roe v. Wade is virtually assured...
...Mallarme; in painting, Henri Matisse; in sculpture, Constantin Brancusi. Wilmarth was a man of wide visual curiosity, but of all modernist movements the one that interested him most was symbolism, which reached its height around 1890 under Mallarme's leadership and which, through its effect on Matisse and others, lay at the very root of 20th century art. For the symbolists, art was a matter of evocation, not description...