Trading standards said most doorstep crime involved offers to do work such as laying a drive or roofing work.
In 2009, Mr. Formanowicz closed one his five Polish plants, laying off most of the work force, and invested in better machinery to boost productivity at the four remaining.
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"The practice goes back to day one, of not laying off employees for lack of work, " he says.
Yet we are confident that it has contributed to the work in progress of laying the foundation of the edifice of reconciliation.
Last fall, Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris visited the Pilgrim Screw Corporation, a fastener manufacturing firm that used work sharing to avoid laying off 35 workers in their Rhode Island facility.
Unfortunately laying these people off increases the work load on the remaining staff and increases errors and inefficiencies because the remaining staff usually is not trained to do the work the laid off middle manager did.
The big global management consulting firms were laying off staff, cutting salaries and reducing work days.
Current work is focused on re-laying worn out areas, particularly around the most heavily used southern side of the marketplace.
And, should you have any spare USB, Xbox 360 or PS3 controllers laying around you'll be able to put them to work cloud gaming, too.
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And for all of my friends on Capitol Hill who give speeches every day about jobs, the importance of jobs, putting people to work, this is not the time to be laying off 70, 000 construction workers.
By laying bare the basic mechanisms of thought, the institute's work could eventually yield clues to conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and autism and mental disorders like depression.
It is a way of putting people back to work, creating positive economic growth, and importantly, Bill, laying that foundation for long-term investments in jobs.
Builder Amey said work had been affected by the wet and freezing weather which had delayed the laying of concrete at the site.
We could, right now, put workers back to work repairing roads and bridges, making sure our schools are state of the art, laying broadband lines into rural communities.
Or they ought to talk to the crews that are rebuilding all the highways and laying tracks for new rail lines -- including road projects that are putting hundreds of people to work in this area.
"Go work out, show them you're in great shape, that you're not laying around pouting ... that you want another chance, " Brown said he told Young.
Much of the work is expected to be carried out at night, with a so-called factory train laying a mile of new track and cables every night once construction is underway.
The three came under strong criticism from the Bush administration for arguing the White House was "laying the pretext or the path for war" before U.N. weapons inspectors had begun their work.
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He got up in the morning and he had his breakfast and he went outside and he's laying down in his air-conditioned grotto outside taking it very easy, completely unaware of the hard work that Mei Xiang has done all night.
Eircom would cut its work force by outsourcing a lot of what it had been doing, such as digging trenches and laying cables.
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