• For 30 minutes, we stood in a circle and partook in playful exercises meant to induce laughter and then wrapped it up with a brief laughter meditation where we laid stomach-up on the floor and laughed as hard as we could.

    FORBES: Break Stuff And Laugh Your A*s Off

  • Researchers in the USA found that fourth eggs are generally smaller than those laid earlier - up to 10% smaller on average.

    BBC: Lady in nest

  • For each laid-off miner, up to ten dependants lose their chief source of income.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa

  • Coyle refused to blame the state of the Wigan's pitch which has now been re-laid after tearing up in recent weeks.

    BBC: Sam Ricketts ruled out for season with Achilles injury

  • For example, Judit Price , a career coach in Boston, says she's lowered her prices for laid-off professionals by up to 20%.

    WSJ: Job Seekers Bend Ears of Advisers, Recruiters

  • It's the result of discipline and hard work in training, just as the laid-back build-up to the final is a direct function of the team ethic: Guardiola trusts his players precisely because they're not the kind to party to excess or do anything else embarrassing.

    WSJ: Barcelona: Club Champions of the World

  • Laid-off employees will collect up to 90% of their income for six months.

    FORBES: Copenhagen Capitalism

  • He had faced calls to resign following the Independent Hillsborough Panel Report into the tragedy which laid bare a police cover-up attempting to shift the blame on to victims.

    BBC: Sir Norman Bettison

  • Third, the tone is so relentlessly bright that even the most laid-back reader may end up wanting to hurl the book into a pile of dirty laundry and retire to an unmade bed with a takeaway meal.

    ECONOMIST: Christmas tips

  • Emphasis was laid out on re-launching and up-scaling School Health Programme in all schools.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • More set-up play by Nish laid on a shooting chance for John Rankin and the midfielder's stinging drive was met by a diving save by MacDonald.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Hibernian 1-2 Hearts

  • The great 19th-century philanthropists laid down their fortunes and set up their foundations in the days when profits were fat, taxes thin and labour weak.

    ECONOMIST: How to spend money and influence people

  • Lytle, who grew up near and still lives in Hamburg, Pa. (pop. 4, 112), knew he didn't want a career where he would end up like his dad--laid off at age 50 after spending 27 years as a depreciation accountant at a public utility.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The problem is that not everyone uses social media - it tends to be concentrated in major cities - and there is no guarantee people laid up in bed with a high fever will feel like broadcasting their symptoms to the world unless they are caught up in a media panic like the one around the H1N1 virus.

    BBC: Can crowdsourcing beat the flu?

  • For example, are these 70 billion burgers laid end-to-end, or are they stacked up on top of each other?

    ECONOMIST: Ethiopia's efforts

  • At that point, I could almost hear a cheer rise up from the swollen ranks of the Crusty Laid-off Newspaper Guild, Local 99.

    NPR: The McEnroe Rule: Less Punditry Is More

  • Pick up that paintbrush or guitar that has laid long-neglected.

    FORBES: Making it Work

  • McLaren made a great break through the middle and, having been held up, laid the ball back to Knight who side-footed home a soft shot for his first goal in a Wednesday shirt.

    BBC: Coventry 1-1 Sheff Wed

  • Second, it puts more people back to work, including up to 280, 000 teachers laid off by state-budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 public schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House Blog: The President

  • In some instances, company perks (think Google's laid-back culture and famously endless supply of cafeteria food) can make up for a two- or three-grand salary difference.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But it was that man Evans that almost laid on a second for Wales as the young tyro set up second-half skipper Jason Koumas, whose 25-yard volley fizzed inches over Sturluson's crossbar.

    BBC: Iceland 0-1 Wales

  • Much of the money made by the state firms is being soaked up by payments for welfare functions, including the wages of laid-off workers.

    ECONOMIST: China��s state-owned enterprises

  • Previously, laid-off employees received two weeks of severance pay for each year at the company, up to 26 weeks of pay.

    WSJ: Firms That Get Stingy With Layoff Packages May Pay a High Price

  • Chef Michael Schwartz's star began to rise in 2007 with the debut of Michael's Genuine Food and Drink, a modern American bistro in Miami's then up-and-coming Design District that showed off his vibrant style and laid-back, locavore approach.

    WSJ: Michael Schwartz's Maple-Glazed Quail With Pear and Almond Salad | Slow Food Fast

  • Compounding the situation, the laid-off migrants are returning to their home provinces and may seek work on farms, where opportunities are rapidly drying up.

    ECONOMIST: Large parts of China are suffering a winter drought

  • The city centre's bars and restaurants, continuing the laid-back summer vein, are for the most part low key and dress code and doorman free, many offering up British Columbia's bounty of local wines and microbrews.

    BBC: Vancouver: Land of the lotus-eaters

  • He set up the fiscal commission, he laid out a framework, and he brought the Speaker of the House -- or together they came to the brink of a bipartisan compromise that would have been very significant and avoided a lot of this.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

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