Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Foundation for Race Relations--established four years ago in lieu of the Third World Student Center long requested by minority students--underwent its first formal evaluation...
...suppose, says Weitzman, that workers agreed to accept a share of the company's revenues or profits--two-thirds, for example--as compensation in lieu of set wages. That money would be divided among all employees. When revenues dipped during a slump, workers' income would drop accordingly, and the firm could then reduce prices to revive sales. Because all the workers take a temporary cut, no one would have to be laid off. The burden of the recession would be shared by the entire work force...
...added that the court would not "hang a medal on the lapel of your coat for the breach of trust, for the false statements . . . and the obstruction of justice you have engaged in in recent years." Lawyers for Harris and Thayer asked that they be given community service in lieu of hard time. But Richey said a stiff sentence was needed "to maintain the integrity of our sacred system of justice...
...writing in sentence fragments, simply refuses to part with scandalous or embarrasing anecdotes, though he reminds us that he knows many. The closest we come is a scene of the Queen spreading newspaper over the carpeting of the Royal Train. It was for her prized corgis to use, in lieu of "walkies...
None of the Elis' four main ground weapons-Ted Macauley, Rick Koz; Mike Stewart and Steve Kline--have gained more than 400 yards, although the Bulldogs have had to stick to the ground in lieu of an effective passing attac...