Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Marion, two factors contributed to the team's defeat. For one thing, the squad was rusty after the long vacation layoff, and for another, some members had to rush back for the match. One fencer had to come to Ithaca direct from Wisconsin, and another straight from Michigan...
...pure economy. Both tabloids have been losing ground for years. Record circulation has dropped 59,000, to 352,842, since 1957; over the same period, the American has slipped from 176,318 to 163,169. After the merger was announced, dismissal telegrams went out to 222 employees; eventually the layoff figure may reach 600 (out of a total work force on both papers of 1,800). Anticipated annual savings in wages alone...
...coast to coast discovered that Newport was a place where they could "lay off" their bets (i.e., get well-heeled Newport gamblers who would cover all or parts of bets too big for the ordinary bookie to handle). Some 45 phone lines run into the Tropicana Club, where the layoff headquarters is in Room 315. One bar accepts as much as $75,000 a day in layoff bets alone...
...bottom land down by the river. And though three whorehouses Lave recently flourished within a block of the station house, Newport's police still look on their town with innocent eyes. "I never seen gambling at the Tropicana," Detective Pat Ciafardini has testified. "As for clear-off or layoff betting, or whatever you call it, I don't know nothin' about...
Recession. The recession issue proved highly overrated. Such long-hurting areas as West Virginia voted for Kennedy. But California's San Diego County, hard-hit by airplane-plant layoffs, remained Republican; so did layoff areas around Seattle and Oregon's slumping lumber region...