Word: laying
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Since Pearson joined PepsiCo, which is a parent corporation for six operating divisions including Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, in 1971 the firm has increased its sales from $1 to $8 billion...
...Americans the blue-eyed, sandy-haired Ueberroth is still a virtual unknown. Even his recent anointment to the apple-pie job of baseball commissioner left most of the country in the dark about him. How did he achieve such a spectacular success? What combination of strength and guile lay behind that almost inscrutable exterior? All his life Ueberroth has been in the thrall of challenges. The Olympics were clearly his greatest. He made speech after speech to his thousands of workers about how together they had to climb a majestic mountain. "I've always hunted for challenges," says Ueberroth dismissively...
...difficult enough. Both sides have amassed such a varied array of arms--medium-range and long-range missiles, single and multiple warheads, land-based, sea-based and air-based weapons --that it is hard to know where and how to begin bargaining. Yet the choice of which weapons to lay on the table is critical: it may go a long way toward deciding whether a meaningful arms-control deal can ever be struck...
When Edward Cooperman, a professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton was found dead in his office last October, shot in the neck by a .25-cal. pistol that lay in his hand, police at first suspected suicide. Several hours later, they arrested the man who reported the crime, Minh Van Lam, 21, a Vietnamese immigrant and former student of Cooperman's. Lam later admitted shooting the gray-haired professor, but insisted it was an accident that happened while the two of them were "playing around" with the pistol at Cooperman's suggestion...
...former Solidarity leader hoped to walk peacefully to the monument of three crosses half a mile away. It was the 14th anniversary of the food riots of 1970, in which dozens of Polish workers were killed by troops and police, and Walesa and some 3,000 followers planned to lay flowers and wreaths at the memorial erected in honor of the martyrs. Linking arms with Bogdan Lis, a former Gdansk Solidarity leader, Walesa strode off, and the crowd fell in behind...