Word: laid
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...creating family-friendly workplaces, offering generous health-care and retirement benefits and upgrading worker skills. Clinton is trying to support the needs of American workers at a time when corporate profits are skyrocketing and wages are stagnating. The issue came to the forefront in January, when AT&T laid off 40,000 workers, and promptly saw its stock price rise. Just this week, ConAgra's stock rose nearly 18 percent the day after announcing 6,500 layoffs. TIME Business Editor Bill Saporito reports that companies will keep downsizing as long as they see their profit margins rise. "As Clinton hands...
...nations around the world, and each year they kill or maim about 30,000 people, usually civilians. The heaviest concentrations of mines are in poor countries like Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Angola that have survived years or even decades of civil war. Five million new mines are laid each year, and only 100,000 are cleared. A new mine costs $3; uprooting one costs between...
...millions of mines, the conference stopped well short of calling for an outright prohibition. "The Chinese have told us flat out that they'll give up nukes before they give up antipersonnel mines," says a senior State Department negotiator. But the conference did establish new guidelines, under which freshly laid mines must contain enough metal to be detected and would eventually self-destruct. There is a nine-year grace period--if grace is the word--before the new restrictions become mandatory...
...Brooklyn-based R.-and-B. duo Groove Theory, whose songs combine pure pop appeal with slightly avant-garde musical touches, received heavy airplay for its smash single Tell Me and has a new song, Keep Tryin', on the charts. Singer D'Angelo draws fans with music that adds a laid-back '90s twist to the sound of '70s soul. And a multi-act tour is being planned for this summer that's being billed as a kind of Soul-apalooza that will feature the Fugees, the group Spearhead and other cutting-edge neo-soul performers...
...such end-of-the-century sensations like the O.J.Simpson trial: "By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying 'token'--a simple affair used often by criminals of the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services...[Later] newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout had been posted to trace the bills, plainest warning to the criminals of Col. Lindbergh's countermove...