Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Childs alleges that the administration is deliberately targeting the dining hall workers for lay-offs as part of an overall cost-cutting plan...
...year Bosnian war that has resulted in 200,000 people dead or missing, those four U.S. bombs were a military pinprick. Politically, however, they shook the ground in all directions -- for a few days. As Bosnia lay relatively quiet, Washington took pride in its muscle flexing. "Every time we have been firm," said Clinton, "it has been a winner for the peace process." The Bosnian Serbs, who denounced the strikes as an intervention in support of the Muslims they are trying to crush, broke off contact with the U.N., charging that it had chosen sides...
What can her private correspondence add to the legacy of her poems? A great deal, as it turns out, including the struggles that lay behind Bishop's quest for perfection. One Art (Farrar Straus Giroux; 668 pages; $35) offers 541 letters selected from the more than 3,000 assembled by her editor Robert Giroux. The book amounts to a kind of daily autobiography, with none of the reshaping that memory can impose. Bishop loved sending and receiving mail. "I sometimes wish," she wrote while a student at Vassar, "that I had nothing, or little more, to do but write letters...
...engaging slave labor and persecuting dissidence; in fact, in the last few months, Jiang Zemin's regime has bullied prominent dissidents with a particularly gleeful abandon. At his Seattle summit with Secretary of State Warren "the Romulan" Christopher, Jiang struck a strident tone, warning the hapless Secretary to lay off China's internal affairs...
...group did not, however, have a coherentnational agenda, between the grand goalsarticulated in the Port Huron Statement and thefrustrating reality of grass-roots organizing forERAP projects lay gap that was a source ofconstant debate...