Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stadium workers (vendors, ushers and the like) out of work; it wiped out the profits of the bars and restaurants around the ballparks. At the Cubby Bear Lounge, where many Chicago Cub fans like to do their pre-and post-game drinking, Owner George Lukas has had to lay off the day bartender; his business has dried up. The strike has disturbed not only the psyches of the fans but all the lives that depend on them. Fortunately, the San Diego Chicken has managed to cope. The Chicken, a cheerleader disguised as wacky poultry who has made himself famous...
...disease deaths occur before a patient reaches a hospital [June 1]. Significant improvement in the heart attack victim's survival rate has been reported when electrical treatment in conjunction with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered within eight minutes of cardiac arrest. Wide availability of a device enabling medically authorized lay people to give appropriate electrical treatment may have enormous life-saving potential...
What was behind it was soon readily apparent. What lay ahead did not fit into the President's carefully crafted week's agenda at all. Reagan had been preparing for his most important foray into the diplomatic arena since taking office: a two-day meeting with Mexico's President José López Portillo in a vital effort to improve relations between the two neighbors. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was due to depart for China on his most significant venture abroad so far. And the Middle East shuttle diplomacy...
...electric purple, wearing spike heels and heavy eye makeup. All that plus a slight Hungarian accent and blond wig make her look and sound a bit like Zsa-Zsa Gabor. Staid rabbis are sometimes scandalized by her delivery, which ranges from a concerned whine to a dramatic whisper. But lay listeners are held spellbound by her blend of polemics and pizazz. Sometimes they weep openly as she speaks about the possible fate of Israel or the loss of Jewish youths through intermarriage with non-Jews. "This generation suffers from Jewish amnesia," she says...
...nation of Bangladesh. Late last week there was another voice on the radio from Chittagong, announcing that Major General Manjur, 40, had taken over the government and abrogated the country's 1972 friendship treaty with India. The hero of a decade ago, President Ziaur Rahman, only 45, lay dead with two aides and six bodyguards in a government rest house in Chittagong. All were reportedly shot by an assassination squad, led by Manjur, in the early morning hours Saturday...