Word: lay
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Prospective bidders include GTE, BellSouth and the Spanish national telephone company. But Puerto Rican labor leaders said they oppose the deal because a new owner might lay off workers. Deja vu? In 1978 the commonwealth proposed selling the phone company but canceled its plans when prospective buyers refused to guarantee job security...
There are two buses that work the Wellesley route. It takes about two hours to make a full circut, with a lay-over of about 30 minutes at Wellesley...
...Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of Governor Wilson from Day One." Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from California's outgoing Republican Governor George Deukmejian and to lay at least some conservative claim to the issue. Insists Wilson strategist Otto Bos, with etymological aplomb: "The words conservation and conservative, after all, stem from the same root...
...ailment. His body is depleted by penicillin shots and antihistamines taken for a nagging infection. And now he must step into the ring against a champion who has destroyed every opponent with awful precision. The odds against an upset are so high that most Vegas casinos don't even lay down a betting line. But our plucky hero surprises everyone by carrying the fight for the first seven rounds. Then, in the eighth, he is knocked down and staggers to his feet at the end of an agonizingly long count. Somehow he rallies to reclaim dominance, and in the tenth...
...bloody scene was bad enough: six people were wounded; two, a 17-year-old and a boy of four, lay dead, cut down by automatic gunfire in Garden Grove, Calif. But what infuriated Ralph Rodriguez, a cousin of the dead child's, was that not one witness was willing to tell police what everyone knew: the slaughter was a revenge killing by the 5th Street gang from nearby Santa Ana, where Rodriguez lives. "I started screaming, and I made people talk to the police," he recalls. "I knew everybody they named as the shooters. I knew all their families." Rodriguez...