Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the fortunate found relief from the tropical sun under the spreading leaves of mango trees in the embassy gardens. But others were overcome by sunstroke and dehydration. Dozens of children lay sprawled on the cool terrazzo floor of the two-story mansion, while one mother nursed her newborn baby, aptly named Peru. "There are people in the branches of the trees, on top of the mangled iron gate and even on the roof of the embassy," wailed one beleaguered Peruvian official. "There's not enough room for one more person...
...company earnings. The furthest reaching program is West German co-determination, which allots workers and management equal numbers of seats on the supervisory boards of large firms. But both sides have become somewhat disenchanted with the system. Management charges that union representatives have leaked board secrets, like plans to lay off employees. Workers claim that they are usually outvoted on the board by the employers, who have a tie-breaking extra vote in case...
...lay down, fully dressed except for shoes, and arranged the covers over me. Lying alongside my body under the blanket was the big ax handle. I could sweep that handle out in a second and knock two men off their feet by striking directly at their knees. In my hand was the knife, and the pipe was under my pillow. I was ready...
Early this century, the Ballets Russes toured Europe and performed dances that helped lay the foundation for modern ballet; a young George Ballanchine honed his craft with this troupe. Under the direction of Russian impresario Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes featured the avant-garde: music by Stravinsky and Debussy, sets by Picasso and Matisse, choreography by Fokine and Nijinsky. The film opens in 1912, with Nijinsky (George de la Pena) at the height of his distinguished dancing career, and beginning to design his own ballets, encouraged by mentor and lover Diaghilev (Alan Bates). But as Nijinsky's innovative ballets meet with...
...decade ago, Alvin Toffler wrote a book with a clever computer-letters cover called Future Shock. And even if that effort was not immediately heralded as better than Revelation and installed in the New Testament, it was readable and interesting, an examination of the horrors, large and small, that lay ahead...