Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TOKYO: At Alcoholics Anonymous, they call this bottoming out. On a single day, Japan's three biggest brokerage houses stood up and recounted the financial nightmare of the past six months. The numbers are staggering -- the biggest firm, Nomura Securities, lost $1.76 billion and plans to lay off a fifth of its employees -- and of course it can always get worse. But optimists hope that a painful lesson has been learned. This might be where the healing starts...
Micah S. Myers '00, who spent 10 weeks last summer in Spain helping to lay the legal groundwork for the case, is an intern with the Spanish legal firm, Astorga y Garcs, that initially brought the complaint against Pinochet...
Stauffer started the play by schooling two Northeastern defenders with a series of left-to-right moves that left the Huskies befuddled. Stauffer dribbled into the box and sent a cross to the center of the net where Berman and Miller both lay in waiting...
...other hand, every big-league hitter knows that sometimes you have to lay off a pitch. That's the case with "Major League (1989), a minor-league effort that features Tom Berenger as a broken-down Cleveland Indians catcher, Rene Russo as the Woman He Loves, and Bob Uecker as, well, Bob Uecker. How bad is this film? "How's your wife and my kids?" is the best line of the movie...
...wrong. Potatoes are a fine source of complex carbohydrates and fiber--as long as you eat them in moderation and lay off the sour cream, butter and bacon bits. But you and I both know that French fries, which are soaked in fat, are not the kind of vegetables we need. Just look at the latest results, reported last week, of the Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing research program that is tracking the health habits of more than 120,000 nurses. Researchers determined that women who daily consumed at least 400 micrograms of folic acid--one of the B vitamins...