Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...juxtapositions that give meaning to the obvious and jejune. The portraits of an exploding Mount St. Helens were awesomely beautiful; but it was San Jose Mercury News Photographer George Wedding's aerial picture of Andy, an eleven-year-old who had been asphyxiated by volcanic ash as he lay in the back of a pickup, that conveyed the awful power of that awful beauty...
Bulging inventories frighten economists because the stockpiles have the unavoidable effect of creating a vicious circle of economic decline. As unsold goods build up, businessmen are forced to pare back production and lay off workers, and this in turn drives up unemployment, which currently stands at 8.4% of the labor force. As jobless lines lengthen, consumer spending shrinks, and this in turn causes inventories of unsold goods to grow even more. Said Alan Greenspan of the Townsend-Greenspan economic consulting firm: "Involuntary inventory accumulation by business will be an absolutely critical piece of evidence in gauging the severity...
...some activists lay the blame squarely on physicians' hunger for extrasurgical practice. Hysterectomy, the most drastic of sterilization procedures remains a complex and dangerous operation. According to a 1972 American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, for every one million who undergo a hysterectomy, 1000 die and 150,000 have serious complications. This compares to 31 deaths and 600 serious complications for the pill and 9 deaths and 400 serious complications for IUD's. Nevertheless, many physicians actually encourage hysterectomy instead of tubal ligations or nonsurgical contraceptives...
While Crimson trainer Pete Provinzano worked feverishly to patch up the bulky forward, Fleming went to work and scored four quick points on a jumper and a tough lay-up. Harvard point guard Calvin Dixon (no relation to Robin), who orchestrated the last-second heroics, put the game away with two free throws, and UNH failed to score in the final four seconds...
...published last April in English (Crossroad; $12.95), Schillebeeckx focused his critical attention on the clergy. Pointing to the church's manpower shortage, he argues that the "right" of Catholics to have priests means that some rules must be reexamined, notably those which ban women, non-celibates and even lay people from performing priestly duties...