Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union's strong demands reflect "a nationwide grass roots labor movement to fight concessions by the workers," says Bozzotto. "The labor movement has to be strengthened in response to the rampant lay-offs across the country," he adds. "Concessions won't save jobs anymore...
...Mornay, now 23, is beguiled by the notion of directing music videos, and she may spend all night, given any encouragement, watching a band lay down tracks in a Manhattan recording studio. She is studying acting with Geraldine Page, among others, and, yes, she is romantically involved. She does not want to talk about this condition, she says, because she does not know how to describe a complex personal relationship in two sentences. Her career is bubbling with offers. De Mornay is fully adult now, a professional actress, possibly the most mature of a promising new bunch. Hand...
...battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash burns and ignited clothes. Reeling teachers shoved children through the blown-out windows onto the grass outside, where they lay screaming and shivering with shock as their parents fought through police lines to reach them. Some 70 people were later hospitalized; at least one child had burns over 50% of his body. Young, rushing back from the toilet, shot School Bandleader Jon Miller, wounding him in the back. Then he ended...
...dreadnought is really shipshape, it seems, without a set of ceremonial silver. When the Missouri was mothballed back in 1955, ten years after the surrender ceremony ending World War II was held on her decks as she lay at anchor in Tokyo Bay, 338-piece silver set was returned to the citizens of Missouri, who had generously donated the finery. With the Missouri returning to action, the Navy wanted the silver back. Problem was, Missouri Governor John Ashcroft wanted to hang on to the ship's engraved punch-bowl set, which has been on display at the state capital...
FOOTNOTE: * The others: two Roman Catholic priests, the Rev. Anthony Clark and the Rev. Ramon Dagoberto Quinones, a Mexican; Sister Darlene Nicgorski; and four lay church workers...