Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of firms laid off some workers after the crash, but job-seeking seniors were generally not affected by the cutbacks, as only a few firms cancelled their plans to recruit at Harvard...
...picnic tables that, as the third project, still dot the Quad do serve some useful purpose, but they too are little more than burlesque--thanks to Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman's infamous observation about picnic tables: "Either you've sat on them or you've gotten laid on them." It wasn't the most practical idea to allow artists to indulge their whimsy at the expense of the hundreds of students who wanted to play frisbee on the field or walk across it unimpeded, but the concept and the execution alike were good for a few chuckles...
Describing co-op life, Sandow said, "We'd party all night, then everybody would get laid. It was great. You can quote me on that." Certain people occasionally came to dinner wearing nothing but a tie and shoes, and at least once an entire nude table, for both sexes, was organized, said Robert R. Terrell '79. There were volleyball games every night after dinner, and Wednesday night poker games. "We played poker like it was a religion," said Sandow...
That grim diagnosis is based on a detailed 2,000-page report summing up a 15-month investigation. The document charges that the Jersey City system is afflicted with "political patronage, union pressure and cronyism." Former Mayor Gerald McCann, for example, reportedly laid off dozens of teachers who failed to support his political campaign. School-board members (all city-hall appointees) have been accused of such shoddy financial supervision that favored contractors collected some $3 million above approved funds. A gym teacher became his school's personnel chief after his union backed the election of incumbent Mayor Anthony Cucci -- whose...
Many local residents and business now worry about what will happen to the Square and their neighborhoods if development keeps up at its current pace. Plans are now being laid to replace much of the western part of the Square with large new office buildings. The sites of the Harvard Motor Lodge and Club Casablanca will be among the first to go. And many of the buildings along Brattle and Eliot Streets (Charlie's Kitchen, Brine's Sporting Goods) may soon be torn down and replaced by six-story office buildings...