Word: laying
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...Number of employees that the government of Libya plans to lay off to trim the budget and gin up private enterprise...
...deepens its commitment to higher education by reaching out to poorer students through an expansion of Pell grants, as proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.). We hope that Congress and the President have enough respect for our future to lay a solid, inclusive foundation for it today...
...these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something...
...going to lay out what I think can be done and what can't be done for the war. I'm going to look back at some of the mistakes they made and then build a case on readiness. I think it's just like everything else: you have to build a case for what you want to do. We can take some dramatic steps--close Guantnamo, get our troops out of Baghdad. And then we need to put money into increasing the readiness...
...ultimate victory. And this revolution occurs at the crucial intersection of our crazed gadgetphilia and our intensifying demand to pump maximum efficiency into and out of every moment. The epic of our iCivilization shall read, to update Pope, “Music, cameras, and mobile phones lay separate hidden in the night; Jobs said, ‘Let iPhone be!’—And all was light.” But surely even this illumination casts some shadows? Even in the nineteenth century, when sheet music was the closest thing to “Shuffle Play...