Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning under a "doomsday" plan devised by the state-appointed Emergency Financial Control Board. Libraries were to be closed, building-maintenance operations reduced, and street-cleaning service cut in half. And that would have been only the beginning: by mid-October roughly 88% of municipal employees were to be laid off, including large numbers of police and firemen...
Grocery stores ran low on bottled water, batteries, canned tuna and bread as people laid in supplies. Homeowners covered windows and doors with plywood and shatter-proofing hurricane tape. Offshore oil workers left their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...
...Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation guarantees thrift deposits, said it would spend $1.9 billion to rescue 14 ailing Oklahoma S and Ls. The Bank Board merged the thrifts into six larger institutions in the hope of selling them to private investors. With the Oklahoma rescue, the agency has laid out a total of $9.8 billion in the latter half of August to salvage 45 thrifts, most of them in the financially troubled Southwest...
...mental health, though almost no one ever looks or feels better after a round. While intended to be a display of self-control, fundamentally it reveals temper. Implied in the $ game's sociability are honor, forthrightness, friendship, kindness, courtesy, generosity and understanding. But nearly nowhere are frailties of character laid barer than on a golf course. After 18 holes with a stranger, you know him. And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow...
Like many outsiders after the war, he went first to Odessa and then to ) Midland, in the raw western part of Texas where the Permian oil pool was being divvied up by eager investors. So many Ivy Leaguers were moving onto the dusty fields that new streets were being laid out with names like Princeton Avenue. Bush brought his air of civic duty to places that did not have exactly the ethos of Greenwich town meetings. He was clearly interested in politics from the outset, and Playwright Larry L. King, then working for the local Congressman J.T. Rutherford, kept...