Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into an enthusiastic innovator for his flock. He democratized the administration of his diocese: he permitted his 583 priests to elect his chief aide, the vicar-general; he set up a clerical advisory council of elected members, and invited the auditing of the diocese's finances by a lay committee. One of his first moves was to appoint the Rev. P. David Finks, a youthful clergyman involved in civil rights causes, to serve as his "vicar for the urban ministry" in charge of slum problems...
...rush was on. Speculators turned to cheaper issues of other mineral companies operating in Australia's raw and open West. Rumors spread that undiscovered nickel deposits lay under much of the territory. Thus, the boom is likely to spur prospecting as well as speculation...
...have Sohio take over BP's U.S. marketing, with BP supplying Alaskan crude and ultimately acquiring a 54% interest in Sohio for a price of about $1 billion. The ingenious deal, like BP's earlier purchase of the Sinclair stations, will not require the British company to lay out a shilling now; the price is to be financed largely out of BP's eventual revenues from the sale of Alaskan crude. The combination would create a company able to compete aggressively against oil giants like Jersey Standard, Mobil and Texaco. As London's Financial Times commented...
...stake is a $900 million industry, mostly made up of small companies that market their products locally. Institute members are obviously afraid that the new dehydrated potato snacks could nibble into potato-chip markets and drive some of the small chip companies out of business. Dallas-based Frito-Lay, which claims to be the biggest chip maker in the U.S. and uses Comic Buddy Hackett to munch chips on TV commercials, sides with the institute. But Frito-Lay is hedging its bet by test-marketing Munchos, a potato snack that it carefully labels "potato crisps." Francis X. Rice, president...
...beautiful woman who serenely lay down on the executioner's block one morning in 1587 seemed to be leaving behind a life of failure. She had spent nearly half of her 44 years in captivity, and was now condemned to be beheaded as a traitor. During the seven years that she had actively reigned over a small and backward nation, she had achieved nothing of note in foreign or domestic policy and had gradually yielded her power to a swarm of savagely contending noblemen. Most decisions in her life had turned out wrong. The last -to seek refuge...