Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loan the company has from Philadelphia's Girard Bank now exceeds its entire peso capital. The firm's order backlog, usually nine months, has dropped to four. Company President Carlos Lopez has been forced to close down two of his company's three plants and lay off 362 of his 509 workers...
White and Pillemer say they are less concerned with the actual content of the memories their subjects describe than with the way they illuminate the nature of memory itself. "The two basic questions we're asking are: what are the rules by which you lay down memories and how do you file them," White explains...
...Just lay down your arms...
...Cardinal's view, is more educational than political; 3) Kent did not claim to be an official church spokesman. "Should the political aspects of C.N.D. develop further and become predominant in its work," Hume wrote, "it would be difficult for a priest to hold responsible office" and a lay leader would be more suitable. He added that "recent developments" had caused him "serious misgivings" and that he was monitoring the problem...
...mistakenly feared that he was going blind. He died rich and respectable three decades later, bequeathing to his college at Cambridge a library of 3,000 volumes and the bookcases he had had made to hold them. On an obscure shelf of one case, in six leather-bound volumes, lay the diary of his youth; there it remained, virtually untouched for more than a century. Pieces of the private confessional, often full of errors, appeared throughout the 19th century, until the ten-volume edition of 1893 established itself as authoritative. True to its time, however, it omitted virtually...