Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes Deaver's influence turns up in unexpected ways. When he traveled to Japan in 1983 to lay out Reagan...
...candidate is personally wealthy or politically invulnerable, the highroad can be a short cut to defeat. Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin of Iowa, for example, takes PAC money even though he has voted repeatedly to limit PAC influence. Says a Harkin aide: "To refuse PAC money would be to lay down your sword when you know your opponent...
...next conventions in four years, network executives are eager to lay down the burden of being the first with the most public service. They will probably take a cue from the Olympic coverage, going live for major events, but instead of filling the rest of the time with their own chatter, offering up taped portions of the day's earlier sessions. In this way the networks should be able to operate more modestly, while more faithfully recording the occasion they set out to cover...
...night before the finals in women's gymnastics last week, Mary Lou Retton, 16, lay in bed at the Olympic Village, conjuring. It was an established ritual for her, no different from the imaginings of a hundred other nights. "I see myself hitting all my routines, doing everything perfectly," says Retton. "I imagine all the moves and go through them with the image in my mind." The following day, the spunky Retton led the U.S. team through a stylish and rousingly high-flying performance. The Americans could not quite match the lavishly talented and seasoned Rumanian team, but their...
Despite brilliant moments, the American team was just not as deep as the Rumanians; the fourth, fifth and sixth competitors could not lay the foundation as their male counterparts had. Michelle Dusserre and Pam Bileck, both 15, performed with the skittishness of youth, doing well in some events and faltering in others. It was left to Kathy Johnson, at 24 the admitted "old lady," to anchor the team. Hers was the steadying base on which the higher scores had to be built...