Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, the Levi Strauss company announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees. Normally, upon hearing such news, we shrug our shoulders and feel at most a moment of fleeting pity. But only a moment. After all, those workers must be half a world away, working in a exotic land for a few dollars a day. But the folks Levi's intends to eliminate are not toiling away in some southeast Asian sweatshop. They're Americans, like us. Now our moment of fleeting pity escalates into a moment of fleeting concern. Americans they may be, we comfort ourselves...
Still Harvard struggled early in the second period. Penn made four of its first five shots, all of them lay ups or open jumpers in the paint, and led by as many...
...book, which is excerpted in the current issue of Wired and will be in bookstores beginning this week, charts the development of the "VWPC" (for Volkswagen Personal Computer), a consumer-friendly $300 device that emerges from La Honda, an elite research center in the Silicon hills, and threatens to lay waste the industry-standard PC. By the time the new computer is ready to demo, Bronson has filled the plot with enough corporate double dealing, espionage and sleight of hand to libel all of California...
...spent about $60 to $70 that I just didn't have on a final project for a studio class last semester," she says. "They don't really lay it out for you at the beginning and say this is how much money you have to spend so that you can lay out your project within these limits...
...Princeton is not going to lay down for us," junior Alison Seanor said. "When you go out and play a young team after spanking it by 30 points, they're out for revenge...