Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his foundation having been laid at the Big Three, Weed says he will go to another graduate school or work...
...Chicago mayoral race, standing against his former patron, Jackson, who was backing another candidate. But several years later, when two officials of the centrist Democratic Leadership Conference tried to prevent Jackson from speaking at a meeting, Brown delivered a searing rebuke. The groundwork of unity that he laid eventually enabled the party to rally behind Clinton...
European workers will take to the streets against any attempt to reweave their safety net. Who can blame them? In Spain, for instance, laid-off workers are entitled to 45 days' pay for each year of service. Two weeks is typical for the U.S. But the price of such protection is stagnation. Firing workers, even for cause, is so pricey that employers are reluctant to hire them in the first place. So Spain pays for its kindness with a jobless rate of more than 20%, Europe's highest. Italy, although more entrepreneurial than Spain, has similar laws and an unemployment...
Those who opt to leave their jobs voluntarily will be given an enhanced severance package based on each employee's experience at OIT. Employees involuntarily laid off will not receive the same benefits, according to the memo...
...paying off. "This is an issue whose time has come because too many giveaways are gnawing away at the tax base of our communities," says Jim Benn, executive director of the Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal, a grass-roots research group in Chicago. "Teachers and firemen are being laid off, and homeowners and small businesses are getting stuck with even more of the burden...