Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much soul searching on church-state issues. In daily sessions with Chief Speechwriter Martin Kaplan, Mondale reviewed ten drafts before he was satisfied with the speech as a definitive statement of his position and a sufficiently strong challenge to Reagan. As one senior aide put it, "He decided to lay down his marker...
...arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed. And as if that were not enough, Speaker Tip O'Neill advised Mondale not to be such a nice guy and to lay it on Reagan even thicker, which could mean the level of political bilge will rise higher...
...unwanted plant is the author. All his life, Conrad Detrez, 48, has been inflamed by credos and causes. The Belgian youth became an ardent mystic and prepared for the monastic life at the Roman Catholic University of Louvain in the 1950s. A few years later he was a lay missionary in Brazil. There he was appalled by the misery of the masses he had come to inspire with the message of Christ. Soon he had become a follower of Marx and Che Guevara and a guerrilla fighting with the Communists. Eventually he was tried and convicted as a subversive...
...potential strike targets, holding open the option of later zeroing in on one firm if bargaining strategy so dictated. Pulling workers off the assembly lines at even a single company could prove costly; when the U.A.W. did so in 1970, it had to mortgage its international headquarters building and lay off 100 staff workers because the strike fund was exhausted...
...those companies, Frito-Lay, the maker of GrandMa's Rich'n Chewy, has now countersued P & G for trying to eliminate competition in the $2.4 billion-a-year packaged-cookie industry. While denying that an employee had misrepresented himself in order to filch secrets, Frito-Lay admitted that it sent a worker to photograph the outside of a Duncan Hines bakery. But, the firm said, the man's college-age son acted without its knowledge when he walked into the plant and asked for unbaked dough. Frito-Lay said it destroyed both the dough and the photos...