Word: laying
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...surrounding the ivory tower is experiencing an economic Dunkirk. Nothing that Michigan is being forced to release several prisoners because the state cannot afford to maintain its penitentiaries. Peter Fletcher, a member of the board of trustees, says. "It's difficult to tell the tax-payers we can't lay off tenured faculty." Fletcher calls the protest over "firing" faculty members "histrionic games," explaining. "You're just laying off people as in other industries...
Elsa Wasserman, who helped conduct the study, said yesterday that the project recommended improved communication between teachers and the school administration, adding that teachers want to know the "processes" involved in lay-offs...
...three wounded men still lay on the ground. After five agonizing minutes, an orange and white Washington ambulance, parked at the Connecticut Avenue entrance to the hotel, pulled around into the T Street driveway. Paramedic Bobby Montgillion jumped out, ran to Brady and grabbed his hand. "I asked if he knew what was going on," recalled Montgillion. "He squeezed my hand...
...accused of a shooting that, perhaps even to him, is a surprise; the first openly extraordinary act of his life. This son of Sunbelt affluence -blond, blue-eyed, with the fleshy good looks of a country club lay-about-had never been outwardly quirky or unpleasant. His unremarkability confounds the desire for tidy, comforting explanations...
After one more handgun made it into American history last week (another nastily poignant little "Saturday night" .22 that lay Uke an orphan in a Dallas pawnshop until another of those clammy losers took it back to his rented room to dream on), a lot of Americans said to themselves, "Well, maybe this will finally persuade them to do something about those damned guns." Nobody would lay a dime on it. The National Rifle Association battened down its hatches for a siege of rough editorial weather, but calculated that the antigun indignation would presently subside, just as it always does...