Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British had marshaled their might in a total war effort by making the private sector a virtual arm of the government. They thus became used to the state's telling the private sector what to produce, and this continued after the war. When the fighting stopped, most of Europe lay in ruins, and the government began directing postwar reconstruction. The British steel industry and Renault, France's largest automaker, were among the ventures nationalized...
...would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad in blue jeans and a Che Guevara T shirt, lay sprawled on the white cliffs...
...left the public grappling with a question that has been coming up again and again: Why are dangerously deranged people allowed to roam at large? Koch himself expressed the common perplexity. "If someone is irrational, particularly with thoughts of killing expressed," said the mayor, "one would say, as a lay person, that the fact he says the next day 'I'm feeling O.K. now' doesn't necessarily mean...
...people, these policies have led to drastically scarce bed space for mental patients, swollen numbers of disturbed homeless people roaming the streets of America's cities, and forbidding legal constraints against forced institutionalization. In Onalaska, Wis., last year, a 30-year-old man shot to death a priest, a lay minister and a church custodian during a mass. He had been released from a Michigan mental-health institution, where he had been committed after several prior assaults. But Wisconsin's laws and those of many other states would not allow him to be involuntarily committed...
...early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base stuff look like gold and silver. Over the centuries, alchemy gave painters, notably Hieronymus Bosch, a rich vein of fantasy to tap, partly because its metaphors of change, duality and syncretism lay close to their own creative processes...