Word: laying
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...been in the region a few weeks," he recalls, "when death squads in El Salvador wiped out the entire leadership of the only center-left group trying to work within that country's system. A few days later, Salvadoran national guardsmen murdered three American nuns and a lay missionary. The past 15 months in Central America have all too often been as dramatic, painful and fast-moving as those first weeks...
There you have it. Ten things to do in Florida besides-lay in the sun. Just clip the list out, and put it away until you wake up one morning in Aunt Frieda's condo and the rain is playing bongos on the roof. While everyone else heads for Neiman Marcus and the Parrot Jungle, you'll know the esoteric spots--the places to go if you crave a Rheingold...
...potential victim of the cuts may be the school's affirmative action hiring system. Earlier in the fall, the school department had signed a contract with Cambridge Teacher's Association (CTA) which specified that teachers were to be layed off on a seniority basis. But when Proposition 2 1/2 was ratified, forcing the issuance of pink slips. Superintendent William C. Lannon made lay-off decisions using "qualification," a term unspecified in the CTA contract but defined by the school committee as experience in a subject, commitment to a particular program and race. The CTA challenged Lannon's policy...
Some Classics' games, however, are more fun than others. One encounter two years ago saw the squad do the obligatory pre-game lay up drill in a rather unorthodox manner: the group dribbled, shot and dunked without the ball for ten minutes. Another such episode had one Classic pull down his teammates shorts in front of hundreds of flabbergasted spectators...
...filed the suit after the city considered racial and ethnic factors in its lay off of more than 100 teachers last year in an effort to preserve its affirmative action police in the face of Proposition 21/2. The union contends that lay-offs should have been ordered on the basis of seniority...