Word: laying
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COLUMBIA (77)-Mark Lay 2-0-4; Carl Scholz 3-0-6; George Meikle 5-0-10; Dale Smith 1-1-3; Mark Settles 10-0-20; Chip Adams 3-0-6; Sean Couch 6-2-14; Todd Williams 3-0-6; Paul Lee 0-0-0; Tom Gwydir 3-2-8; Ron petrunoff 0-0-0; Mark Murphy 0-0-0. Totals 36-5-77; Fouled out; none...
...Supreme Court handed down a decision last week that will enable corporations to use bankruptcy as a way to avoid going belly up. In a 9-to-0 opinion, the court ruled that a company that has filed for bankruptcy can cancel a union contract, cut wages and lay off workers without having to prove that the pact would cause the company to go completely broke. Declared AFL-CIO Special Counsel Laurence Gold: "The ruling obviously enhances the opportunity for union busting...
...including 90% of the 2,000 French soldiers who had been evacuated from Dunkirk-ignored him, remaining loyal to the Vichy regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain. Cook summarizes De Gaulle's monumental presumption: "A marshal of France and head of government had ordered French soldiers to lay down their arms before the enemy. A brigadier general virtually unknown outside military circles was refusing to obey, and compounding this disobedience by calling upon others to join...
...lost the child I had been carrying. I did not even care. It seemed to me, at the time, that if "he" (it was weeks before my tongue could from his name) must die no one deserved to live, not even my own child. I thought, as I lay on my bed listening to the rude Mississippi accents around me, that with any luck I could lose myself. I do not recall wanting very much to live...
...with the leadership, she managed to strike a subtle balance between the stiffly formal Kremlin protocol and the more relaxed style of Western diplomatic gestures. TIME has learned that Thatcher, in consultation with Washington, hopes to expand bilateral meetings between East-bloc and Western foreign ministers in order to lay the groundwork for a possible superpower summit along the lines of the 1974 meeting between President Gerald Ford and Brezhnev in Vladivostok. Said Thatcher: "If there is to be progress on arms control, it will come not through negotiating skill alone but because a broader understanding has been reached...