Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March, when it became clear that the Administration was indeed likely to include the AWACS in the arms sale. Israeli officials initially expressed little more than token opposition to the sale, but they have been convinced by the country's military leaders that AWACS in Saudi hands could lay bare all of Israel's military secrets to Arab enemies. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reacted to the sale announcement last week by giving U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis a memorable private tongue-lashing. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, Begin's major opponent in the June 30 Israeli elections, denounced...
...committee does not get an additional $1.6 million in anticipated funds, it will be forced to lay off an additional 40 teachers next fall under the $35.1-million limit set by Sullivan...
...Cambridge School Committee early Thursday morning unanimously adopted an "educationally sound" $36.7-million budget for the 1981-2 school year, which will still force the committee to lay off 138 tenured teachers and administrators because of funds lost under Proposition...
...knows? Maybe Chekhov would have watched the Iowa State Opera's version of "Boris Gudonov" complete with introduction by a genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably was closer to popular sentiment when he plugged his Sony with a .38, explaining to his manager, who lay wounded by the richochet, in that wonderful Memphis drawl--"Nobody should have to put up with that shit...
...almost inevitably, to the threat of corporate complacency, a cloud over the cachet. ECM has taken some heat for issuing smug, snug suburban jazz, and, perhaps in response, Eicher has brought some fringe groups into the fold. He has released two records by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who lay down a kind of ripped and fragmented aural collage, as well as an acetylene album by Old and New Dreams, a group of former Coleman sidemen, populated by such wizards as Don Cherry and Charlie Haden. "We want controlled contrast," Eicher says, and to prove it ECM has released...