Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street. Dirk Zimmer's illustrations have the amiable quality of cartoons; the only people likely to be disturbed by this refreshing tale are those who wonder where they mislaid their sense of humor...
...floor and leave them there for days." Read and other former employees further charge that bins full of excess ashes were sometimes wheeled out to the cemetery grounds and dumped into still open graves. Cooper sued and eventually settled out of court, but her account of switched urns and mislaid remains led to lawsuits by other families...
...called in to scour Lorton. Meanwhile the State Department launched an urgent "damage assessment" to figure out if any U.S. secrets had been compromised. The problem is, because no microfilm records had been made, authorities could not be sure exactly what top-secret information the mislaid safe originally contained. In fact, the only certainty last week was that, in the words of one State Department official, "there sure as hell were lapses all over the place...
...country, where 70 firms currently use robots. He found that the most common form of sabotage was to slow down the machines by feeding them parts in the wrong order, with the hope that management would be disappointed in robot performance. In other cases, employees repaired the machines incorrectly, mislaid essential spare parts or put sand into the robots' lubricating oil. In one metal construction plant, production was reduced for more than six months because of worker resistance. Other companies are certain to face similar troubles, says Nijland, unless management encourages "honest discussion with workers" about the effect robots...