You can lay off cards on your own melds, and on those of your partner and opponents. |
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An analyst said the company should lay off more staff in order to tighten cost control. |
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She reckons she has another three novels in her, so anyone who expects another this side of 2010 should probably lay off the codeine. |
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The latest offer withdrew an earlier demand by the company to immediately lay off 36 workers. |
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And try to lay off your blow-dryer, hot curlers and flat iron as much as possible. |
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He knows when to sprinkle his company saga with telling anecdotes and when to lay off the technobabble. |
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Under the proposed new legislation it would be easier for employers to lay off and sack certain categories of workers. |
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The government has also eased labour laws, thereby making it easier for companies to lay off workers. |
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Again, McNamara must be given credit for the forward run and the timing of Sutton's lay off was perfect. |
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Cliona seemed to treat my recent resignation as an involuntary termination or lay off. |
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Hitters can succeed against him if they lay off his slow stuff and focus on his hittable 88-mph fastball. |
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They are bounteously gifted filmmakers, but sometimes you just want them to lay off the irony and climb down here with the groundlings. |
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The board of directors has decided to lay off 15 of the total of 58 pilots of the national flag carrier. |
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Even before area steel mills began to shut down and lay off workers the area was economically depressed. |
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While pocketing this money the airlines have moved quickly to lay off employees in very large numbers. |
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Late yesterday evening the former pilot boat was towed past its replacement, HMS Wilton, as it lay off Southend Pier. |
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I shuffled about a foot into the middle, hoping he'd lay off the fact I was freaking out. |
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In the local debate that's ensued, Henraux plays the jobs card, threatening to lay off 20 workers if it can't level the mountaintop. |
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This means firms can hire and lay off workers fairly easily, but governments have the responsibility to promote full employment. |
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It's that attitude, along with the support Fisher House provides, that keeps Worley going full bore in rehab when so many others may be inclined to lay off or even give up. |
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To do so, it could lay off 20 workers or reduce the normal working week from 5 to 4 days for all 100 workers. |
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Firms facing higher price volatility may lay off some of that risk through trading in futures markets. |
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Bebe was ordered by the second doctor to lay off any physical training for six weeks, leaving Ramncwana devastated after waiting in the wings for a year. |
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Dyspeptic bond markets are now pushing Spain and others towards reforms that make it easier and cheaper to lay off workers again. |
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This would also in all likelihood force some companies to cease production and lay off their employees in the near future. |
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The unit had to lay off staff, cut its caseload, and lacked the funds to take on statewide corruption cases. |
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He keeps it light and he has just the right touch and timing to know when to rag me about it and when to lay off and let me do things in my own time. |
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How can I get her to lay off without sounding like a jumped-up cow? |
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It was either cut pensions and benefits or lay off workers and divert money from schools and infrastructure. |
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If you're ginger with tendencies towards ruddiness, you lay off the reds. |
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Children who gain one-to-one assistance from a teaching auxiliary are having that withdrawn as head teachers were forced last week to lay off valued staff. |
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During those discussions, the children of parents responsible for terminating employees talked about how their parents were affected by having to lay off long-time associates. |
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Standring brought George Thomson into the play with a lovely lay off and Thomson unleashed a thundering shot that was only stopped by the woodwork. |
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Companies then downsize and lay off workers with a clear reduction in income. |
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So let's lay off Tim and just hope in the fullness of time he becomes a much better commentator than some of the other no-marks who qualify as pundits during Wimbledon. |
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But as a result of our budget this year, we had to lay off workers here locally within our district and we've had to pull in our belts severely. |
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It is not the intention to lay off employees or to cut corners on quality, but rather to do more with the same resources. |
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Banks were seeking to close branches, lay off tellers and save money by electronic e-commerce banking. |
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In these countries, traditional, often industrial, enterprises were forced to lay off large numbers of people. |
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It is vital, therefore, to put an end to the granting of aid to multinationals that proceed to lay off workers and relocate manufacturing. |
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The urge to survive drives companies to cut cost, reduce operations and lay off many people. |
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This type of financial aid will be offered to those enterprises which keep the number of jobs and do not lay off their employees. |
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Harmonisation of European law on dismissals could end regular debates over social dumping, whether it is cheaper for multinational companies to lay off and close down operations in different Member States. |
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We should lay off a ministry yoke only when we sense the Lord so directs and not because of boredom, fruitlessness, conflict or some other crisis. |
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No employer may, by reason of the leave, dismiss, lay off, suspend, demote or transfer an employee, or do anything that would adversely affect any of the benefits attached to his employment. |
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An eligible employee may be absent due to illness or injury for a period that does not exceed 12 weeks, during which the employer may not dismiss, suspend, lay off, demote or discipline him or her. |
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Thus the person who had had the sangfroid to lay off 2000 people managed to clean up the company and was well-chosen and competent, but his objective was not especially to introduce a service culture. |
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Can they get supplies from their own factories in China, or will the reintroduction of quotas be just tough luck on them for having lost their livelihood and been obliged to lay off their workers in Europe? |
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Even if it were easier to lay off, move or reassign employees in the public service, the time and energy required to deal with so many people would totally absorb the newcomer's agenda. |
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Worried about the steady rate of retrenchment, it announced that employers who wish to downsize their workforce should lay off foreign workers first before they retrench locals. |
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Employers are forced to lay off workers just to stay afloat. |
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The law obliges an employer wishing to dismiss or lay off all or part of his permanent staff for economic or technological reasons first to inform the Labour Inspectorate, which must then attempt to conciliate the parties. |
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Is it simply to pack up the boxes, lay off the staff and move out town? |
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They unfairly and illegally lay off employees, forcibly impose flexible working hours, encourage child labour and demonstrate a lack of responsibility for pollution. |
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Even when the survival of the business may be at stake, owners of family businesses find making the decision to lay off staff difficult and the actual act of breaking the news to staff often unnerving. |
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The firm might then decide to invest less and lay off workers in order to reduce its production capacities, as it would otherwise expect to make a loss given the perceived decrease in the relative price of its goods. |
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However Councillor Adam Vaughan, the mayor s most frank criticizer, lay off the settlement story line. |
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Kylie Jenner wants people to lay off the topic that her pouty lips are a product of plastic surgeries. |
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Haye came in at the highest weight of his career, appearing to have gained a lot of muscle mass since the lay off. |
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The resulting recessionary local business climate caused many firms to lay off expatriate staff. |
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For the last fifteen years I've worked out regularly, usually taking only one day off a week Must I lay off running completely for recovery? |
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But since caffeine does not benefit your baby and you can switch to decaff anyway, you might choose to lay off the stuff for nine months. |
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Russell was giving the pommies stick with his mates, but Danielle said he should lay off Jonny because he's obviously a very talented athlete, '' said a friend. |
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The Royalist Navy was forced to retreat to the Isles of Scilly, which lay off the Cornish coast and were under the ownership of Royalist John Granville. |
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Falling sales and a consequent loss of profits forced the company to lay off more workers. |
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In 1974, Andrew Mitchell took over from Ian Scott as managing director of the studios but was almost immediately told to close the facility and lay off all the staff. |
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The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers. |
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