41.   Billups picked it up and threw it to Mercer, who laid it in the hoop.

42.   Breakthroughs on nuclear questions are not likely, although groundwork for greater cooperation was laid simply in preparing for the summit.

43.   - If you try your hardest, do your best and work at being a team player, you will be laid off in a corporate downsizing.

44.   -- Orange County, Calif. will be forgotten by everyone except those being laid off in Orange County.

45.   -- Wyclef Jean laying in the street and being taken away in handcuffs after refusing to leave.

46.   A former senior program manager for EMC Corp., he was laid off in February after only seven months on the job.

47.   A cracked jug, laid in the yard at an angle, can be just the right touch, Armstrong suggests.

48.   A year later, with most of the flesh and hair gone, they were detached and laid in rows on the ground.

49.   Advertisements from champagne makers are warning people to prepare for their parties by laying in a supply early.

50.   Adult weevils relentlessly destroy cotton by boring into its seedpods, or bolls, and laying eggs in the hole.