Word: layed
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...last month, they discussed the sort of topics that only a true policy wonk could love. Does there need to be "a new equilibrium between labor and capital"? Is Latin America "the new horizon of socialism"? [an error occurred while processing this directive] Behind the high-toned banter, however, lay a visceral political yearning. France's left has not held the nation's presidency since 1995, and it is hungry for power. It might be thought odd, then, that the person who has the strongest chance of winning the top office in next May's presidential election didn't take...
...rather than saving) as a metaphor for spiritual practice. Yet he spent far more time among the poor than the rich, and a majority of scholars quote two of his most direct comments on wealth: the passage in the Sermon on the Mount in which he warns, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth ... but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven"; and his encounter with the "rich young ruler" who cannot bring himself to part with his money, after which Jesus famously comments, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle...
...motion, prosecutors argue that the current law is not fair to crime victims and "erases hard-won verdicts." The Enron task force wants the new law to be retroactive to July 1 - four days before Lay died. The proposal has sparked a hot legal debate among those involved in and observing the Enron case...
...While some attorneys, and victims of the Enron scandal, argue that letting Lay - even in death - off the hook is a miscarriage of justice, others say the proposal is mean-spirited. "It's a disguised attempt to punish Lay further - not to help crime victims," says attorney Joel Androphy, author of the legal text White Collar Crime. "It has no global purpose other than being vindictive." Even though the criminal case is over, Androphy points out, Enron victims will still be compensated, because Lay's estate will have to pay any civil judgments. He argues that the proposed law sends...
...Still, some doubt that Congress will pass the new law - and, even if it does, whether such a law could be made retroactive to apply to Lay. "Even this Congress is not going to be party to an attempt to criminalize Ken Lay," says attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer, What it Takes to Win "when the law has declared him innocent...