Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston, a 46-year-old medical technician lay dying of acquired immune deficiency syndrome last week. Before he became too ill to speak, he insisted that he did not belong to any of the four high-risk AIDS categories: homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Instead, he blamed his illness on accidentally pricking himself with a needle while taking blood samples at the laboratory where he worked...
Many of the town's residents and plant workers praise Union Carbide for its safety record. They speak glowingly of how the plant was one of the few in the region that did not lay off workers during the recession. The news from India did not trigger panic. Says Nelljean Holmes, whose husband has worked at the plant for the past 24 years: "The first thing I thought of was that maybe they didn't have qualified workers at the plant in India. I just don't think what happened in India could happen here." Standing outside...
Although the two leaders agreed on the need for peace talks, they seemed to be at odds over the subject of the Camp David accords, which Hussein continues to oppose, even to the extent of declining to lay a wreath at Sadat's grave. Complained the King: "It eliminated the P.L.O. from the peace process...
...investments and speeding up approval of takeovers. Said Industry Minister Sinclair Stevens in introducing the bill: "We believe that it is time for us to build bridges, not barriers, to new opportunities." The U.S. is the most important source of those new opportunities. Mulroney travels south this week to lay out his ideas in an address before New York City's Economic Club. His theme: Come...
Nesson: ... I lay it at the door of enterprises like "60 Minutes," which the public loves to watch, but which they at the same time feel involves very aggressive forms of journalism. And when you get a jury returning a big award, to me that's nothing more than a reflection of the broader sense that journalism needs to be taught a lesson, and that getting it wrong is an opportunity...