Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students moved in last fall. Indeed, I did some very real soul-searching over the issue of whether or not it made sense--given the availability of important information, such as tutor telephone numbers, by way of that electronic version, as well as through other forms of dissemination--to lay waste to yet more tree's meat in printing hard copies...
...Mothers-to-be should lay off the CAFFEINE. Drinking three or more cups of coffee or tea daily during the first four months of pregnancy may more than double the risk of miscarriage...
With that, Monrovia descended into anarchy. Militiamen and free-lance thieves, many of them children, rampaged through the streets, shooting their way into abandoned stores and looting at will. Those who resisted were killed. Bloated bodies lay rotting on empty avenues...
That question lay behind an event last week that rattled the U.S. publishing world. After several weeks of growing protests, St. Martin's Press announced that it had canceled its planned release next month of British historian David Irving's biography Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. St. Martin's chairman Thomas J. McCormack denied that his house had succumbed to "coercion," which included a swelling tide of unfavorable press stories, criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and, according to some employees, telephoned death threats. Instead, McCormack said, a few of the protesters had prompted...
...recognized authorities. Militia men will steal your car, they will shoot you, they will do what they want depending on their mood." The reasons are largely economic: "Everyone is still armed and there is no revenue coming into the country. Authorities have been asking soldiers to just lay down their arms and try to find a way to sustain themselves in a peaceful society, but they do not have the resources. If you are a 20-year-old militia man who can get a television and a sack of grain in five minutes with your...