Word: laying
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...Brady lay on the sidewalk, blood seeping from a wound in his head and trickling into an iron grating. He tried to rise. Rick Ahearn, a White House advanceman, cradled Brady's face and shouted: "A handkerchief, a handkerchief!" Dropped in the turmoil, a police pistol lay incongruously beside Brady's head. McCarthy had been trained to try to block any shots at the President with his own body; when the firing began, he turned away from the limousine toward the assailant. Hit in the abdomen by a bullet that might well have struck the President, McCarthy whirled away from...
...decided, lay in a clause of the 14th Amendment that gives Congress the power to enforce the amendment's due process and equal protection guarantees. The high court has broadly interpreted this enforcement power before in allowing Congress to extend voting rights. In 1959, the court ruled that literacy tests do not discriminate. But Congress later decided that, in fact, they do-and banned them by law. The court went along. To Galebach, this shows that the court is willing to defer to Congress's factual determination of the scope of constitutional rights or, in the abortion issue...
What made BartÓk's music so unusual, so unsettling? Other composers-Stravinsky, Prokofiev -were rhythmically tricky; still others-Schoenberg, Webern-were even less conventionally melodic. With BartÓk the difference lay in his rejection of the German musical models that had long been dominant. Visiting the dying composer in New York one day, Dorati recalls finding him engrossed in a copy of Edward Grieg's Piano Concerto. Asked why he was studying such a romantic score, BartÓk said that Grieg was important because he had "cast off the German yoke...
...Boston, which closed down its entire transit system for 26 hours last December, has just enough money to operate its subways and buses (300,000 riders) through the fall. City officials have already been forced to lay off 100 of its 6,700 transit workers, and only narrowly averted a walkout last week by postponing the layoffs of an additional 220 employees...
...whom are employees of Japan's largest and most powerful companies. In Japan a worker typically joins a firm directly out of trade school or university and expects to stay there until he retires. Says Akio Morita, chairman of Sony: "In Japan, once we hire people we cannot lay them...