Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steadily, but because of the overall slowdown, ad linage has dropped an estimated 25% from last year; only five of the eleven London dailies are still making a profit. This month the Guardian was forced to announce an austerity program: to save $1,400,000 next year, it will lay off 36 writers and editors and cut back other departments as much...
...lay: Jack Ruby, 55, in serious condition at Dallas'Parkland Memorial Hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his chest; Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 66, recovering in London's King Edward VIFs Hospital following an unspecified abdominal operation; Joseph P. Kennedy, 78, resting in Boston's New England Baptist Hospital after an operation to remove lesions from his chest; and Actress Sina Lollobrigida, 38, feeling much better following treatment in Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital for severe intestinal inflammation that resulted, she said, from eating an unwashed apple in Mexico...
...astonishment of many Canadians. Montreal Gazette Business Columnist John Meyer called the bill "quite inexcusable" and warned that "the implications of this for other foreign investors are absolutely frightening." At the hearings, Bank of Montreal Chairman G. Arnold Hart protested that "such an arbitrary and discriminatory" act could only "lay us open to retaliation." Possibly so. If the bill passes, the next U.S. Congress will probably act on a measure, sponsored by New York's Republican Sena tor Jacob Javits, that provides tit-for-tat treatment for countries where U.S. banks are unfairly hampered...
...work is supported largely by a grant from the Office of Naval Research. Myths about federal direction of basic research are another cause for lay suspicion of science, Holton thinks. But he notes that at Harvard, government relations have never been a major problem. For one thing, Harvard never contracts for classified government research; for another, "Harvard antedates the federal government, and they know that we could say no to their terms if we wanted to, and still survive...
...Berkeley's aging young agitators, it was a dreamlike revival of past hell raising. To Berkeley's recently confident administrators, it was a sickening replay of two-year-old nightmares. Cops swung clubs on campus. Angry students scratched and bit policemen, or defiantly lay prone. The perennial martyr, Non-Student Mario Savio, exhorted cheering students, some perched in trees, to stay out of class. Nearly 2,000 of them did, and Berkeley again seemed close to coming unhinged...