Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rejoice in objectivity is to rejoice in divesting one's self of self; to lay claim to objectivity is to lie," she writes in the introduction to her excellent collection of essays, The Astonishing World. "Disinterestedness is an excellent thing in a Supreme Court justice...but a disinterested writer? I couldn't be one--why would one choose to spend a lifetime writing about a subject that didn't excite one's passions?--I'd be bored...
...theory that mycoplasma, a bacterium-like organism, is the trigger that turns a slow-growing population of AIDS viruses into mass killers. According to Montagnier, the explosion of sexual activity in the U.S. during the 1970s fostered the spread of a hardy, drug-resistant strain of mycoplasma. HIV, meanwhile, lay dormant in Africa. The AIDS epidemic began, Montagnier speculates, when the two microbes got together, perhaps in Haiti...
...Cambridge the average daily room price inthe first half of 1992 fell by $1.40. Thatdecline, coupled with a rise in inflation, makesindustry watchers nervous that hotels will cutservices, defer needed maintenance and lay offworkers. that could devalue the quality of thearea hotels, which could hurt the industry in thelong...
Suduiko said that the move was simply a cost-conscious response to a weak economy, citing the fact the institute had to lay off 150 workers at one of their laboratories. Suduiko said the Memorial Drive job was an "isolated" deviation from the institute's usual policy of hiring union labor...
...make sure they know where the candidates stand," she said. "We try to lay it out there for people to make their own decisions...