Word: lay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...often the case in modern medicine, the most a patient can ask of her doctor is to lay out the risks, the benefits and the honest fact that the data are inadequate, and then let her make the choice...
...Squier who adjusted the lighting and critiqued the President's makeup. Then Clinton went on the air, emphasizing how his budget plan differed from the g.o.p. version: it would eliminate the deficit in 10 years instead of seven, protect education, and go easier on Medicare. The Morris touch lay in Clinton's conciliatory tone toward Republicans, his embrace of moderate Democrats and his willingness to alienate liberals. "This could be a turning point for us," Clinton told his TV audience, suggesting that bipartisanship could lead to real fiscal discipline for the first time in decades...
...production, namely Sesame Street. In February, abc canceled ctw's animated Saturday-morning science program CRO, and its pbs show Ghostwriter is on indefinite hiatus, having lost its funding. In the fiscal year that ended in June 1994, ctw lost $5.8 million, and two weeks ago it had to lay off 47 people -- 12% of its staff...
...rapidly growing block of anti-Yeltsin members. So Yeltsin will either get the parliament to back down, or he'll have them totally out of the way for a few months while he pursues his own legislative agenda." One thing Yeltsin can't afford to do, says Kohan, is lay low. "There's a real perception here that Yeltsin has been letting the country drift. He really has to show the public that there's a firm hand on the tiller...
...most part, my face was in the dirt, and I was just praying they wouldn't see me or hear me," he recalled. At times, his Serb pursuers approached, beating the ground with their rifles in an effort to flush him out. On one occasion, he lay motionless as a cow browsed on blades of grass between his legs. Eventually he nicknamed two cows that were especially fond of his hiding spot "Leroy" and "Alfred"; the old man who herded them he called "Tinkerbell" because of the cowbell he carried. At another point, O'Grady was awakened by the roar...