Word: laying
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...What the speech did lay out is a road map for getting the economy back in shape and then keeping it expanding. What it did not do, despite its own claims, was say how it would be paid for. (See pictures of how Obama prepares for a speech...
Avid followers of the case were incredulous that the body lay less than 100 yards from the park's trail. But the inability to find Levy's body for more than a year - during which time hopes of unearthing physical evidence from the scene slowly seeped away - was only one in a battery of mistakes committed during a bungled investigation. Investigators failed to realize security cameras installed at Levy's apartment building might have offered valuable clues until after the tapes had been erased. While examining Levy's laptop for clues, an unseasoned sergeant mangled her Internet search history, forcing...
...lynchpin of the government's effort to defuse the Taliban insurgency is Sufi Mohammed, a septuagenarian Islamist cleric whose Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law has returned to Swat with the backing of the authorities. "We will ask them to lay down their weapons," Mohammed says of the local Taliban. "We are hopeful that they won't turn us down." Mohammed's credibility with the militants is based on the fact that he waged his own violent campaign for Shari'a law in the area in the mid-1990s; he also fought alongside the Taliban when U.S. forces invaded...
...tougher line against the Taliban. Many in his own party privately express misgivings. "What will stop them from going further?" says one member of parliament who asked not to be named. "I don't want my wife or daughter to wear a burqa. What if they don't lay down their weapons? They could be in Peshawar next, or even Islamabad...
...with alacrity, and invent new business models, all in an effort to capture new market space. It is hard to fathom the ingenuity we would witness if capitalists participated fully in the one-half-trillion dollar market of educating American children, sights set broadly on the trillions more that lay beyond our borders...