Word: lay
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...right to divorce, tolerance for gay sex and, above all, birth control. Rome's insistence on adhering to church tradition has required the hierarchy to hold the line, but in practice most local priests wink at widespread violations of these tenets. Parishes have become considerably more democratic, and lay people (most of them women) perform most tasks, including administration of everything but the sacraments. The ban on women priests, however, remains in force. Priests and bishops are still appointed from on high, but one major organizational change has been in place for decades: many married men serve as Catholic priests...
TELEVISION The inventors of Big Bird lay...
...arrangements of the first three songs make an immediate musical impression. On "Earth Died Screaming," Waits sings in a low grinding voice until the chorus when he shifts to a high register and screams "And the earth died screaming/While I lay dreaming of you." The effect is electric...
HURRICANE MAASTRICHT HIT EUrope a week earlier than expected, and with a roar that all but drowned out France's fateful vote on European integration. In its wake lay a twisted political and economic landscape that may never look quite the same again. Battered as never before in its 13-year history, the European monetary system will need extensive repairs if it is to serve as the cornerstone of some future monetary union. Britain, where a parliamentary vote in favor of the treaty on European unity had once been a foregone conclusion, emerged from the tempest in a shaken...
...unemployed to stare at the enormous gap between a job as a grocery clerk or some high-skill, high-wage position they cannot dream of getting. What to do with these workers, how to make them productive consumers, is the fundamental dilemma of the American economy. "Every time I lay off 3,000 guys," says Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, "I know there are 3,000 less customers who are able to buy our products...