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The groundwork for a true global terrorist network was being laid.
The groundwork had been laid for Steve Ballmer's accession to the throne, and it's been clear for a while that Wall Street is very comfortable with Ballmer at the reins.
With her belief that unwanted sexual advances and utterances (and even, in some cases, wanted ones) degrade women so profoundly that it's worth limiting free speech to prevent them, MacKinnon laid the intellectual groundwork for today's sexual harassment laws.
He had laid the groundwork.
But the groundwork for the youth culture that supported rock 'n' roll's growth was laid two decades earlier by the Roosevelt administration.