Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hamas immediately denounced the peace plan, saying, "We will never agree to be part of this game." So far, Hamas and other rejectionists have not mounted major demonstrations, but they will be heard from after they lay their plans to disrupt coming elections for the Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority. Ten of the rejectionist groups met in Beirut last week to plot strategy...
...Until several years ago, the best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
...firstborn in their ancient motherland. The accommodation they announced last week, though still very rough and capable of igniting bonfires of violence among opponents of compromise, had one transcendent merit. A deal negotiated in secret by foes who had chosen to meet face to face signaled that they could lay aside their perpetual sense of victimhood...
...Carey is only 23 years old. Why can't hack music critics just lay off her and see how she blossoms...
Others attribute Letterman's reclusiveness to his Midwestern reticence and a sincere discomfort with playing the celebrity game. "It's good taste," says Steve O'Donnell, who spent eight years as the show's head writer. "He doesn't want to lay that stuff...