Word: laying
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...president said he felt that the the key to future African progress lay in the embrace of technology...
...admitted it's purely symbolic. "I don't think we're actually going to get the legislation done," DeMint said. "But if he could help build the foundation so Americans understand it's a problem that needs to be fixed, he could do a good service if he could lay the groundwork for the next President...
...placing in jeopardy those we count on to protect us. For even at a stratospheric price, the V-22 is going into combat shorthanded. As a result of decisions the Marine Corps made over the past decade, the aircraft lacks a heavy-duty, forward-mounted machine gun to lay down suppressing fire against forces that will surely try to shoot it down. And if the plane's two engines are disabled by enemy fire or mechanical trouble while it's hovering, the V-22 lacks a helicopter's ability to coast roughly to the ground - something that often saved lives...
Nick was about as nice as an old man with a dislocated hip can be. Despite what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that...
...main focus of the event will be Faust’s speech, where she is expected to lay out some of her main goals, though she has said she will not present a detailed list of priorities, as Summers...