Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excess employees. A highly visible case was CBS, whose board of directors dumped Chairman Thomas Wyman in September and installed as acting chief executive the company's largest stockholder, Laurence Tisch, a conglomerator known for wielding a sharp scalpel. At CBS, Tisch proceeded to sell off publishing divisions, lay off hundreds of employees and chop such perquisites as limousines and company-subsidized birthday parties...
...twelve years between the Wall Street Crash and Pearl Harbor, the American imagination seems to have oscillated between two images, the streamline and the breadline -- the former promising relief from the latter. And in the maxim of the 1939 New York World's Fair, "See tomorrow -- now!," lay the siren syllables of undeferred gratification that would abolish the constraints of Puritan America while preserving its millenarian fantasies...
Although the 1920s and 1930s are remembered as a golden age for mysteries, that era's exemplar, Agatha Christie, and most of her contemporaries had no gift for taking readers on a journey into another culture or milieu. The fun lay chiefly in guessing, if one cared, who killed Roger Ackroyd. Nowadays, Christie's kind of puzzle, based on clues larded into the text, has largely given way to a more novelistic brand of mystery, in which the solution may not matter that much to either the writer or the reader. The motive for a crime is more likely...
...career-high 14 points) made a nifty steal and drove downcourt. Near the foul line, Jasper forward Antoine Owens made like a cornerback beaten on a fly pattern and tried to make a touchdown-saving tackle. Gielen was dragged to the floor, but not until he threw in the lay-up. A two-shot intentional foul was correctly called, and Gielen canned the freebies to cap an eight-point Harvard run which turned a 77-73 ballgame into an 85-73 Crimson cinch...
...chairman of the newly created Women's Studies Program, British scholar Olwen Hufton, is visiting Harvard this week to lay the groundwork for the fledgling concentration and to prepare the way for her move next year from Reading, England...