Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lay-off at least a dozen of the department's approximately 85 guards. Officials would likely justify cuts by nothing that the guard unit has lost contracts at the Business and Law Schools to private security firms...
...reality is that lay-offs would further deplete a guard service that has already lost 10 percent of its force to attrition. That would mean fewer familiar faces for students. And financially, the move would be penny-wise and pound-foolish. A smaller unit means more guards would have to do extra shifts, which would force the department to foot the bill for expensive overtime hours...
...experienced all three several times on that fateful evening of waltz conducting. I returned to my room after the post-waltz party, having walked a stumbling cellist home. At this point I still retained complete control of dexterous and psychological, but alas not intestinal, functions. I lay down in bed to read, hoping that Sir Walter Scott would wear off the Scotch. But the lines of text resembled the scrolling credits of a movie on fast-for-ward...
...them, like a scolding from a teacher, which came back when it was cued by something else," notes Dr. Lenore Terr of the University of California, San Francisco. Similarly, she argues, extreme traumas can be more deeply buried than other memories. "This may seem counter-intuitive to the lay person, who thinks 'If something terrible happens, I will always remember it,' " says Dr. Judith Herman, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. "But these memories seem to be laid down in an altered state of consciousness...
...distance from the Australian art world-which, by the early '60s, had begun to see him as a talisman of integrity-was only outwardly bohemian; its ori-gins lay in the sort of calm, fanatical pride that cannot bear the distraction of company. One thinks of him scratching around between studio and sea like Shakespeare's exiled misanthrope Timon on the beach: "Come not to me again, but say to Athens/ Timon hath pitched his everlasting mansion/ Upon the beachEd verge of that salt flood...