Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Postal Service should be profitable [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 2]. Thanks to Congress, it is immune from paying damages that result from bungled mail delivery. I learned the hard way. My passport, which was sent by certified mail, lay in the San Francisco post office for two weeks awaiting delivery. The Postal Service deserves the ridicule piled...
...contras; their aim is very openly to destroy the Sandinista regime. If the U.S. remained true to its avowed purpose, it would have to abandon the contra bands it had trained, armed and encouraged. Alternatively, it would have to negotiate some kind of amnesty under which the contras could lay down their arms...
...hunk of plastic and silicon that might as well be used as a doorstop. A computer without software is like a car without gasoline, a camera without film, a stereo without records. This year Americans will spend an estimated $65 billion on computers of all kinds. They will lay down an additional $16.2 billion for the software that makes the machines do their magic...
...controllers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Washington are convinced that Max is functioning, it will be lifted out of the cargo area with the mechanical arm and set afloat in space. (If the tinkering fails, the astronauts will strip Solar Max of its cumbersome solar panels, lay it on its side in the cargo bay and carry it back down to the ground for an overhaul.) By then, Challenger will have climbed to an altitude of 270 miles. The higher orbit will reduce the effect of atmospheric braking and extend the satellite's lifetime until...
...proposals were delivered to me at the hotel. We met the following afternoon, but after eight hours of haggling, Galtieri drew me aside and said, "If I lay it all on the line, I won't be here." I asked him how long he thought he would survive if he lost a war to the British. Gradually, it became apparent what the difficulty had been. If Galtieri did not hold the power of decision, neither did the junta. On every decision, the government apparently had to secure the unanimous consent of every corps commander in the army and their...