Word: laying
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...Below the belt!" protested White House Spokesman David Gergen in a heated 45-minute briefing the following day. "To lay all of the problems that have been with this country for a long time on Ronald Reagan's doorstep, we think, is not fair," he added. Gergen sent two sharp missives to CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter requesting, "out of fairness," that the Administration be given a half-hour of prime time to respond. Replied Sauter: "In light of the extensive coverage which CBS has and will continue to provide to Administration viewpoints, we do not believe that...
...some of my classmates and colleagues at Harvard Law School." There seem to be plenty of precedents for them to cite. Five federal cases have involved tax privileges for schools that discriminate. The schools have lost every time. Perhaps with Coleman's help, the Supreme Court can finally lay the matter to rest...
...journey, the presidential panoply goes beyond the merely awesome. Preparations take months. Scarcely had Reagan returned to Washington last week from a five-day "working vacation" in Jamaica and Barbados before a party of presidential aides headed by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver took off for Europe to lay the groundwork for a Reagan trip in June. En route, Deaver denounced as "ridiculous" estimates that the Caribbean trip had cost the taxpayers $5 million, but gave no figure of his own. The White House does estimate that more than 300 people accompanied Reagan to Jamaica and Barbados, not counting...
...Gaza, a seven-year-old boy died from the effects of an Israeli bullet wound in his stomach. In Jerusalem, a five-year-old Arab girl was recovering from surgery after doctors removed an Israeli bullet from her brain. Elsewhere in Jerusalem, a three-year-old Israeli girl lay gravely injured with a fractured skull and was in danger of losing the sight of one eye. She had been riding in a bus when a rock thrown by an Arab demonstrator smashed through a window and struck...
...Temple Mount, an eerie calm prevailed. Shattered glass fragments, almost jewel-like in their symmetry, lay in piles outside the walls of the Dome of the Rock. Inside the eight gates to the Mount, Israeli troops and police stood guard, restricting the entry of would-be worshipers. The Israelis clearly feared that the entire area might become a staging ground for further demonstrations against the Israeli presence in the vicinity of the sacred mosque...