Critics say that the rubber meets the road when a company must fire or lay off a talented individual.

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Second, IBM now has incentive to lay off or fire employees before that Dec. 15 date.

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Mr. Nixon took his tea into the living room, where the dog lay by the fire.

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Not surprisingly, Gore and his surrogates are trying manfully to lay down suppressing fire.

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Then Romesha and his soldiers came up with another plan: Go outside and lay down heavy fire from the machine guns as an airstrike targeted a village nearby that militants were using as a staging area, giving the three soldiers -- Larson, Mace and Sgt.

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Next time, come in ready to lay down some covering fire.

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He said so much information was coming in to the operators it was unclear how widespread the fire was and where the dangers lay.

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But after numerous invasions by forces vying for the Polish throne as well as an accidental fire in 1844, the abbey lay in ruins until 1939, when 11 monks formed an order there again.

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Southern Iraq to lay out the terms of the cease-fire ending the Gulf war with Iraq in 1991.

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We're not talking about a high-and-fire economy, but at the moment if small businessmen need to lay someone off they've got a real problem.

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Overhead video from CNN affiliate KTLA showed firefighters working to douse a fire as most of the plane, including a visible part of its wing, lay in the middle of a road.

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