Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflation, which is running at a rate of about 5% a year, and by a slowdown of the general boom that Spain has enjoyed for the past seven years. Production lines no longer operate day and night, overtime has been reduced, and many factories have been forced to lay off some of their working force. Result: a wave of strikes aimed at maintaining the standard of living to which the workers have only recently become accustomed. Once a worker is making $200 a month, he finds it difficult to settle for less-particularly when it may mean losing his television...
...That's perfect, Senator," says the producer. "Lay it on them." "All right," the Senator tells his sidemen, "Teddy, on the ocarina, let's go . . . Eunice, a little more tempo there." Then Bobby is cued for the big sock finish. "Come on and hold me tight," he begins laconically, but from the control room a voice interrupts: "A little more Boston soul, Senator." Later, when he waxes too hot ("O come on, wild thing"), the producer cautions: "Not so ruthless, Senator...
...year through death or retirement. On the basis of what they expected to save by merging, the two estimated that they were losing $225,000 a day because of the delay. Meanwhile, 3,100 workers have been furloughed, and planning is snarled because neither road wants to lay out money on facilities that do not figure in the joint operation...
...beneath the hubbub of business and busyness, an aura of secrecy and uncertainty lay over the Johnson presidency. The President himself had be come so remote and uncommunicative that reporters began calling his stay at the ranch "the long silence" - a silence that was only briefly broken by a press conference at week...
Then the Crimson broke the game open. Micheletti slapped a hard shot from the point and Dennis McCullough followed with a rebound effort. The puck lay loose under Nichol cntil Waldinger poked it into the cage...