Word: laying
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Bush, who promised during last year's campaign to crack down on ethical laxness in government, arranged to lay out his recommendations in a speech at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention...
Sheehan said many mainstream reporters covering the war thought they could have an impact on decision-makers by writing the truth about the war. But the problem lay not only in the levels of bureaucracy which distanced politicians from the realities of jungle warfare in Vietnam, as the reporters thought, but with the leaders themselves, Sheehan said...
...question of revenue will now be decided by the Senate. If they choose to link fiscal '89 with fiscal '90, they will lay the groundwork for a substantial tax increase," Voke said yesterday during debate...
Moscow Beginners was started in 1987 by the Rev. J.W. Canty, an Episcopal priest from New York City who came to Moscow in 1985 to help lay the groundwork for the group. Meanwhile, Volodya, 36, a machinist, had heard about A.A. on a Canadian radio broadcast and had written to A.A. headquarters in New York, which in turn informed Canty that he had a taker in Moscow. The group's first session, held in a hotel room across from the Kremlin, was attended by Volodya and two visiting American members of A.A. Membership grew slowly, largely because the group...
...equipment run down to the point that it was taxed to the limit when it cleaned up a small spill of a mere 1,500 bbl. in January. Workers who had been hired to devote full time to combatting oil spills were replaced by people whose primary duties lay elsewhere. The state government failed to keep Alyeska up to the mark; the legislature denied its watchdog agency funds for inspecting oil terminals and was pretty much reduced to taking the oil companies' word for their preparedness. The Coast Guard too has sustained deep budget cuts and, says a friendly observer...