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He had laid the groundwork.
Nonetheless it lays groundwork, both personal and substantive, for further talks.
So his first order of business in the Senate was to begin to lay the groundwork for a flip-flop.
Shocking as it may seem, Whitehead actually plagiarized the title of his major work, Principia Mathematica, from Newton, whose major work was also entitled Principia Mathematica . Newton, however, plagiarized his title from Machiavelli, whose major work, II Principe Mathematice , laid the groundwork for all future studies in quantitative political science.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that a 1991 trip to Asia, made by the then-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the late Ron Brown, a trip which has yet to draw the scrutiny of investigators, may have provided the groundwork for the Democrats' foreign fund-raising from Asian special interests.