Word: layed
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...Coming The question at the heart of the fraud trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling involves the men's awareness of Enron's accounting and financial manipulations?a minefield that Sherron Watkins, one of TIME's 2003 Persons of the Year, recognized long before the company collapsed...
DECEMBER 14, 2004 Summers pledged that the low numbers of tenure offers to women would not be repeated, saying, “We have already matched last year’s sorry total.” Mansfield argued that the real problem lay in the dearth of conservative women. “Try to find a conservative professor at the Radcliffe Institute,” he said...
Keeping the labor peace is critical for Wagoner since he will soon have bigger issues to face: reaching a deal with the U.A.W. for a master contract to replace the one expiring in September 2007. Under the current contract, GM can close factories but can't lay off workers; they go into a "jobs bank" and collect wages and benefits even if they sit around and play cards. Wall Street estimates the program costs $600 million a year. "Clearly, it's an area of uncompetitiveness," Wagoner says. It's sure to be on the agenda. So too will...
...Bassett accepted from Wilkes was for helping him with a business trip to a part of Europe where Bassett knew "the lay of the land from before" - presumably a reference to Bassett's earlier work for the CIA, said the person speaking for Bassett. Bassett "was not an employee of [ADCS]. It was a one-off consulting deal" this person said on Bassett's behalf. Wilkes' Washington attorney, Nancy Luque, said Wilkes has done nothing wrong and that Bassett was hired as a consultant "for his knowledge of the area they were working in and facility with the languages spoken...
...National Health Service, for instance, has absorbed huge amounts of new money under Labour, and many health indicators are improving. But lots of hospitals are having to lay off staff because they've overspent; many doctors and nurses say the NHS is badly run. Meanwhile, Blair is pushing to let state schools have greater autonomy, which traditional Labour MPs think will lead to sharply unequal quality and hurt those at the bottom of the social ladder...