penciled out + fired

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> I see "fired" in newspapers routinely where "laid off" is what I
> would expect.

That's precisely what's seen, on a daily basis, despite the fact that,
for the ordinary wage-earner, there is a clear distinction between
being jobless as a consequence of having been laid off as opposed to
being jobless as a consequence of having been fired.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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