Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Associated Press correspondent Anderson, who has been held since March 1985, longer than any other Westerner, it has been at least as bad. Some of the hostages freed earlier have reported that Anderson's first cell was a cramped room in Beirut's Shi'ite slums where he lay chained and blindfolded. Later he and four others were moved to a basement dungeon that was partitioned into cubicles. The guards beat them and repeatedly threatened to kill them. , Food was a meager ration of bread, tea and cheese...
...more of the world's basic crops now share genetic material. Most high-yielding wheats and rices derive their short, sturdy stature from just a few ancestors. While these genes may be tough, the genes transferred with them may contain a hidden vulnerability that could allow pests to lay waste to huge areas. Observes plant breeder Garrison Wilkes of the University of Massachusetts at Boston: "Imagine what a burglar could do if he got past the front door of a building and found that all the apartments shared the same...
...coldest days of the cold war, summit coverage has been a growth industry. But it has ballooned to such mammoth proportions that it has crossed into the realm of self-parody. Only a relative handful of the 2,113 journalists accredited to cover the Bush-Gorbachev meetings managed to lay eyes on any of the leaders' key aides, much less Bush or Gorbachev. Some White House regulars were assigned to pools, but most journalists "covered" the events by sitting in the press room at Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel, a mile and a half from the Kremlin. There they read pool reports, watched...
...Lay off Mother Goose," I told him. "What's your point...
...when the flash-bang goes off at the front door, the SWAT team is storming the back door," says correspondent Elaine Shannon. And so, when Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the ferocious leader of the Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in Colombia last week, Shannon knew that the real story lay elsewhere. "Escobar is a terrific sound- and-light show," she says. "But people of such towering stupidity always flame out." In her eyes, the group to watch is the Cali cartel. And, as deftly laid out by her in one of this week's cover stories, its members have...