Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning, the security forces stormed the plane and the hijackers, reportedly the children of prominent Georgian officials, eventually surrendered. By the time the smoke had cleared, a crew member, a flight mechanic, an air hostess, at least three of the unknown number of passengers and one of the hijackers lay dead...
...series of dull thuds. Suddenly, an elder of the church was staggering down the aisle, fatally wounded, and warning the congregation to take cover. As people dived under the benches, bullets began ripping through the thin wooden walls. When the siege was over, three churchgoers were dead and seven lay wounded. It was one of the more savage terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland's long and bloody history of sectarian violence...
...summons memories of Dylan back when the times were a-changin'. "The neighborhood bully just lives to survive/ He's criticized and condemned for being alive/ He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin/ He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in/ He's the neighborhood bully." Union Sundown is an agitated piece about how dreams of workers and solidarity have been sold out by greed, while the song that ends the album, Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, combines...
...provocative toward Black and other minority persons within his institution or whether Bok is simply hidebound insensitive toward crucial minority concerns. One of those times was last year during the controversy at the Law School about affirmative action in faculty hiring. Another time is right now regarding the controversial lay-offs among the University's structural trades workers, lay-offs which impact with disparate harshness upon Black workers...
...alleged cost-efficiency move, the University decided, recently, to contract out the work done heretofore by approximately fifty structural trades employees. Thus these fifty-odd workers faced the crisis of employment termination (lay-offs) as the University contracted an outside firm to replace these workers. A complex agreement was reached between the University and the unions representing the workers, an agreement which reserved the lion's share of termination pay and job placement assistance to (you guessed it) workers with twenty years or more on the job. It is a textbook case of a big white institution and white-dominated...