Word: lay
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While the entire S&L bailout is expected to cost taxpayers as much as $300 billion, the dire shortage of sleuths is partly caused by the Bush Administration's unwillingness to lay out a measly $25 million. Last year the Administration requested $50 million for the assault on S&L villains. Congress upped the authorization to $75 million, but the Administration balked. "If the violators don't believe they're going to be caught and stiffly sentenced, they're going to keep doing it," warned Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., the subcommittee's chairman and a former banker himself...
When her cancer was diagnosed three years ago, Diana Nolan did not need much imagination or prophecy to know what lay ahead. The disease had killed both her parents. Surgeons removed part of her lung, but the cancer spread. Her physician next suggested that she try a potent chemotherapy but warned of the potential side effects -- hair loss, nausea and vomiting. "I wanted a full week to think and pray," she recalls. "I am a person who wants to have a part in the treatment. Let me know what my options are." In the end, she told her doctor...
...collapse, witnessed by millions of TV viewers last week, was sudden and mystifying. One minute a college basketball star -- one of the most promising in the U.S. -- was playing at the top of his form. The next he lay crumpled on the court, dying of apparent heart failure at age 23. But long before Hank Gathers' death, there were warning signals. The Philadelphia-born senior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles had suffered a similar collapse three months earlier. He was diagnosed as having a heart-rhythm abnormality, treated with medication and cleared to play...
...unclear whether Ortega was merely posturing to placate his more hard- line followers -- or issuing an ultimatum. Chamorro did not wait to find out. She joined Ortega's call for the contras to lay down their weapons. "The causes of civil war in Nicaragua have disappeared," she said. The next day Ortega returned to a more conciliatory tone, this time announcing the renewal of a cease-fire that he had unilaterally suspended last November. At the same time, he called on the U.S. to pay for the prompt demobilization and relocation of the contras, 10,000 of whom remain...
...such characterizations miss the big picture, not just of what Gorbachev is trying to do but also what he has already done. "Events" didn't liberate Eastern Europe, rein in the secret police or lay the groundwork for political pluralism and parliamentary democracy. If Gorbachev disappeared from the scene this week, his accomplishment would qualify as more than crisis management and ad hockery...