Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landlords have taken the reaction with calm and a certain pleasure. Says Seneca Nation President Dennis Lay: "When they negotiated the original leases, they thought we weren't going to be here at the end. I guess we fooled them...
...Television film showed young men frantically trying to free victims from slides of dirt and the remains of homes. Women in black chadors clustered in town squares, fearful of returning home or lacking a home to return to. Children wept among the dead and the injured. Amid the debris lay abandoned toys, clothing and shoes...
Early in 1989, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten climbed to the highest reaches of the best-seller list. Nine months later, the sequel was born. It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It followed the leader straight to the top. Both books still beam down on a world they analyze and celebrate. The author has not only remained popular with readers; he is also in demand on television and in concert halls. Last February he conducted the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony in the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth -- no mean accomplishment...
Jokes aside, the rift between Washington and Jerusalem appeared to be widening alarmingly. Senior Administration officials insisted Baker's crack was no impulsive outburst but a calculated attempt "to lay down a marker before the new Israeli government locked itself into a position that made further progress ((toward peace talks)) even more difficult...
...interview with the Jerusalem Post, Shamir seemed to lay down a new condition for negotiations to arrange those elections. Said he: "There is nothing to discuss with those among the Palestinian Arabs who are opposed to autonomy." In Israel that is a code word for strictly limited self- government; the remark thus implied that Israel will talk only with Palestinians who abandon the idea of an eventual independent state. Any such condition would make it quite certain that no Palestinians would come to the bargaining table...