Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...salary increases will necessarily mean more lay-offs of city workers, in addition to those mandated by the second vear effects of Proposition 2 1/2. Healy said that union officals are aware of the need for an as yet undetermined number of lay-offs, but that they have nevertheless requested the salary raises...
Sunday night, Duckett's needling eventually had its effect. Weaving his way up court, Ferry broke free for an instant, faked right and nailed Donald Fleming in the left corner for an easy jumper. Seconds later, Standley launched a perfect inbounds bomb toward Monroe Trout, who cleanly sank the lay...
...million respectively for two of the transponders. The high bidder, however, was a new outfit called Transponder Leasing Corp., which paid $14.4 million, and will presumably now turn around and lease out its space to other companies. Also high in the reckoning was Billy H. Batts, 46, a lay minister based in Chattanooga, Tenn., who has plans to establish a Protestant Evangelical and family-entertainment network. That must be a record price for a pulpit...
...delegates inside. Last week the weather in Cleveland was warmer, but the social and religious climate had turned chilly as the N.C.C. celebrated a belated 30th anniver sary and mulled its many woes. The loudly trumpeted "Ecumenical Event" was supposed to draw 2,000-plus clergy and lay leaders. Instead, only 900 showed...
Exactly 100 years ago next week, a ragtag group of tradesmen and industrial workers met in Pittsburgh under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, a cigarmaker from London, to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Ahead lay many battles against obstinate employers as unions fought for recognition: the Homestead and Pullman strikes in the 1890s, the bloody 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, Mich., when Walter and Victor Reuther were attempting to organize auto workers. But now, as the U.S. labor movement enters its second century, it faces equally serious problems: eroding membership and fading public support...