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  • But he still suffered occasional layoffs—which were sometimes prolonged enough to cause hardship.†   (source)
  • James Raskob, President, CEO and Chief Engineer of AMTAC had managed to keep the company together, with a lot of layoffs, admittedly, despite the bad times.†   (source)
  • Suppose the husband has a job and is buying a house and there's a layoff.†   (source)
  • I'm going to try to get a temporary job during the summer layoff.
  • The company is going to need another round of layoffs.
  • I'd been planning on telling them as much, using my layoff as a cautionary tale.†   (source)
  • Wage reductions and layoffs stoked unrest among workers nationwide.†   (source)
  • Still, there had been no layoffs at Chase Industries, not yet.†   (source)
  • All over the country there were shutdowns and layoffs, but not in my father's factories.†   (source)
  • After the layoffs, it seemed like it might happen.†   (source)
  • "We've had a bunch of police layoffs—one-fifth of the force, and we were tight to begin with.†   (source)
  • Second round of layoffs, just like he predicted—just a few weeks after the first round.†   (source)
  • The mill, I knew, had just had a new round of layoffs.†   (source)
  • The San Antonio was a terrible place to make a season debut after a long layoff.†   (source)
  • The long layoff from racing, culminating in a week stuck itching in the barn, took its toll.†   (source)
  • No elite horse had ever returned to top form after such a serious injury and lengthy layoff.†   (source)
  • The bankers were pressuring the exposition's directors to appoint a Retrenchment Committee empowered not just to seek out ways of reducing the fair's expenses but to execute whatever cost-saving measures it deemed necessary, including layoffs and the elimination of departments and committees.†   (source)
  • He said he would make every attempt to keep factories running but may soon be under the necessity, of either layoffs or part hours and wages.†   (source)
  • Nick Dunne, a onetime magazine writer still pride-wounded from a 2010 layoff, agreed to teach a journalism class for North Carthage Junior College.†   (source)
  • But I'm still feeling sick about the layoff, our layoffs, when my dad calls and asks if he and Mom can stop by.†   (source)
  • But I'm still feeling sick about the layoff, our layoffs, when my dad calls and asks if he and Mom can stop by.†   (source)
  • His-and-her layoffs, isn't that sweet?†   (source)
  • Gilpin and I wended our way through the summer-school students, a combination of impossibly young kids (bored yet busy, their fingers clicking out texts or dialing up music) and earnest older people I had to assume were mall layoffs, trying to retrain for a new career.†   (source)
  • She read budget calculations, advertising and marketing projections, an exchange with CFO Sellberg that went on for a week and was virtually a brawl over staff layoffs.†   (source)
  • In the slow times—no one likes to say the word layoff—he cuts firewood and loads it on his old '63 Chevy pickup to sell to people in town.†   (source)
  • Then they started to talk about the mill, about layoffs and slowdowns, and, for reasons I am not quite sure of, I was ashamed.†   (source)
  • When the layoff came there, they'd go on to another factory.†   (source)
  • FRANCIE HAD BEEN WORKING TWO WEEKS WHEN THE LAYOFF CAME.†   (source)
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  • But he laid off me.†   (source)
  • Father had laid off some of his workers in September — some of the younger ones, better able to fend for themselves, according to his theories — and had asked the remainder to accept shorter hours.†   (source)
  • My father was laid off.†   (source)
  • They were brilliant, but they couldn't get the jobs they wanted, and public teaching was what they did because it was security and it had a pension and you didn't get laid off.†   (source)
  • Then about a year ago, they laid off the whole department.†   (source)
  • He went first to Norfolk and worked at a shipyard for six months before he was laid off, then moved to New Jersey because he'd heard the economy wasn't so bad there.†   (source)
  • Laid off most of our tribe.†   (source)
  • Thousands of workers laid off elsewhere had come to Chicago hoping for jobs building the fair, only to find that too many workers had gotten the same idea, thus leaving a large pool of men available for work—any work, at any price.†   (source)
  • After his release, he went to work on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico but was laid off in the fall of 2008.†   (source)
  • I figured that if I laid off gradually, by the time I entered high school in the fall, I could start fresh, no longer be known as "the cellist."†   (source)
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  • I could have laid off him a little.†   (source)
  • "My dad's got laid off, and Brenda and Ellie are fit to fry 'cause they can't have new clothes for Easter."†   (source)
  • I had let it ride, laying off some lame excuse like I had to get uptown even though I was carrying my ball.†   (source)
  • He assembled parts for military aircraft, which paid well but didn't do much for his soul, so getting laid off during a slowdown was a blessing.†   (source)
  • The rumors were true: Sixteen writers have been laid off at Nick's magazine.†   (source)
  • Right now we're laying off people."†   (source)
  • Ishmael recollected his father at work here, his neatly arranged manila folders spread out before him, his yellow legal pad laid off to his right, an array of heavily scrawled index cards, onionskin typing paper in both goldenrod and white, a thick dictionary on a stand, a thicker thesaurus, and a heavy black Underwood typewriter, the desk lamp pulled down low over the keys and his father blinking through his bifocals, slow and expressionless, absorbed in his words, afloat in that pool…†   (source)
  • After I graduated from school I went to work for the Santa Fe railroad, and stayed until the following winter when I got laid off.†   (source)
  • There were Hallmark cards for bereavement, for loss of a beloved pet, for getting laid off from a job, but no one seemed to have the right words of comfort for someone whose son had just killed ten people.†   (source)
  • That's why I laid off you for liking him.†   (source)
  • Dominican chocolate was not especially in demand that season and the Puerto Rican owners laid off the majority of the employees for a couple of months.†   (source)
  • Jimmy hadn't laid off the bet with bookies who could handle those sums.†   (source)
  • Claudine at a Women for Women meeting in Rwanda (Nicholas D. Kristof) Nine months after sponsoring Claudine, Murvelene was laid off.†   (source)
  • He'd been a machinist here for years, but got laid off a while back.†   (source)
  • His mom had recently been laid off from her job cleaning rooms at a Days Inn, and Lorenzo's dad was burning through twelve-packs of Milwaukee's Best on a regular basis.†   (source)
  • I definitely should have laid off on the obvious flirtation with Nick.†   (source)
  • One day he was laid off.†   (source)
  • In one day, the company laid off nearly a third of its employees-and Cedric got a pink slip.†   (source)
  • I dare say the French spies have been writing many, many a melancholy letter on the subject to their partisans who are laying off the coast.†   (source)
  • If I do this, I'll never be laid off.†   (source)
  • I said I would, and everybody laid off projecting for a while.†   (source)
  • Granpa laid off the rows with the plow and ol' Sam.†   (source)
  • "I've had to start laying off some of my wait staff."†   (source)
  • Granny complained that he always seemed to get laid off during duck season, enabling him to hunt more.†   (source)
  • Acting quickly, he sold the building in Queens, laid off 10 percent of the administrative staff, and cut costs everywhere he could.†   (source)
  • If you get laid off, security can have you on the street in three minutes.†   (source)
  • Already they were beginning to discern what would be abundantly clear in another decade — that at the end of every project, they would all get laid off, and have to find new work at another firm, where, just as they were beginning to rise in the ranks, they'd be laid off again.†   (source)
  • Reservation people were the first ones to get laid off because white people in Gallup already knew they wouldn't ask any questions or get angry; they just walked away.†   (source)
  • Frank, Jr., the brooding bear, had been laid off his job.†   (source)
  • Factories that weren't laying off workers en masse were shutting down entirely.†   (source)
  • Later, when my father had been laid off from his job, this woman became very important to us.†   (source)
  • But now even the fair was laying off men, and the timing was awful.†   (source)
  • My father was hopeful for the first time since being laid off.†   (source)
  • He barely shrugs when I tell him I was laid off.†   (source)
  • Brothers was smiling and laying off him.†   (source)
  • All those guys got laid off from the Blue Book plant last winter.†   (source)
  • Pops was laid off again and sitting around the house a lot.†   (source)
  • A bad low-pay journalist left behind after all the decent ones have been laid off.†   (source)
  • They couldn't afford all those temple sacrifices, so they laid off Helios and Selene and folded their duties into our job descriptions.†   (source)
  • He'd been laid off.†   (source)
  • "You know, sitting by the exits on the highway with those signs: Laid Off, Please Help, Need Beer Money, whatever," he said, scanning the room.†   (source)
  • Nick will spend the night of our anniversary buying these men drinks, going to strip clubs and cheesy bars, flirting with twenty-two-year-olds (My friend here just got laid off, he could use a hug).†   (source)
  • He'd been laid off at the plant two months earlier and had been spending most nights there, an angry man looking for pity and solace in the company of alcoholics.†   (source)
  • He didn't know how they got there in the first place, from the reservation to Gallup, but some must have had jobs for a while when they first came, and cheap rooms on the north side of the tracks, where they stayed until they got laid off or fired.†   (source)
  • They're laying off.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Girt was sixty-eight years old, a heavyset, cheerful woman who'd been laid off her job as a lunch lady and needed the extra income.†   (source)
  • Since being laid off, Murvelene has had freelance jobs, and she continues to allocate 10 percent of her income to charity.†   (source)
  • They're laying off.†   (source)
  • The lady let me have it because her husband's been laid off work and she's been thinking for a while now, she said, that maybe their little boy should move in with his sister so they could rent his room out for five dollars a week."†   (source)
  • God damn him, why hadn't he laid off me?†   (source)
  • Charlotte laid off me, but Simon worked himself into a rage at Mrs. Magnus in her brown dress.†   (source)
  • The sanitary authorities always had a waiting-list of applicants for work; whenever there was a vacancy the men at the top of the list were notified, and unless they too had laid off work for good, they never failed to appear when summoned.†   (source)
  • One day Sissy was laid off from work and decided to go over and look after Francie and Neeley while Katie was working.†   (source)
  • So I laid off the topic, and we used the spare time to take color pictures of Caligula on my arm in front of the cathedral; until mounted officers who appeared to gallop out of the gates of a ministry drove us off the plaza.†   (source)
  • Work was slack and Sissy was laid off.†   (source)
  • The girls told her not to break her neck--that it was seasonable work and they'd all be laid off when the fall orders had been made up.†   (source)
  • Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied.†   (source)
  • Dale laid off his sombrero and leaned forward, holding his rifle between his knees.†   (source)
  • When the rush or busy hours were over, they were laid off.†   (source)
  • Then he grabbed his coat, which he had laid off to work, picked up his gloves, and started out.†   (source)
  • He laid off his coat and hat and began his preparations.†   (source)
  • Bein' bunged up some myself, I laid off an' went down to the river to wash the blood off, tie up my wounds, an' drink a leetle.†   (source)
  • He had laid off his hat and gloves and was now fidgeting with the little toilet pieces which were nearest him.†   (source)
  • "But here, young man," went on the elder, laying off his overcoat and fishing in his trousers pocket.†   (source)
  • Finery laid off is as unappetizing as the remains of a feast, and it occurred to Lily that, at home, her maid's vigilance had always spared her the sight of such incongruities.†   (source)
  • Later, after that he had wandered on, essaying one small job and another, in St. Louis, Peoria, Chicago, Milwaukee—dishwashing in a restaurant, soda-clerking in a small outlying drug-store, attempting to learn to be a shoe clerk, a grocer's clerk, and what not; and being discharged and laid off and quitting because he did not like it.†   (source)
  • It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study.†   (source)
  • After breakfast we all laid off and talked, and the first thing that come out was that these chaps didn't know one another.†   (source)
  • We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a general good time.†   (source)
  • While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen.†   (source)
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