Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again in moving anything through Congress, from imf funding and voluntary national standards for student testing to campaign-finance reform and U.N. dues. A tobacco deal was supposed to show that Clinton was still in the game, while also funding programs for child care and education that he had laid out in January. That's why Clinton had been so willing to compromise on everything from tax cuts to liability limits...
...sometimes destructive river sweeping through China, bringing riches to many but drowning others in its floods. And like the river, change is flooding through the nation. Fortunes are being made in private businesses, but millions of workers who depended totally on their jobs with state enterprises are being laid off. More millions are roaming the country trying to find work. Corruption has become malignant, and environmental damage is off the end of the scale...
...hill in the riverside town of Wanxian, Gu Xiaoli looks out over the boat dock from her kitchen window and sighs. She is cooking a modest dinner of rice soup, pigs' feet and steamed buns. In the past two years, she, her husband and her son have all been laid off from textile factories in the town. With their combined pensions of $100 a month, they also have to support her 85-year-old father. Her biggest worry is for her son. After being laid off, he opened a restaurant that failed; then he got a driver's license...
...Qianlong is moored for the night at Wushan, and next to it at the dock is a large boat with a neon sign for WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards...
...trail, a red line painted on sidewalks or laid in brick throughout the city, will lead you on a three-to four-hour tour of the city's most prominent historical landmarks as well as Boston's traditional Italian neighborhood, the North...