Allergies are the result of a hypersensitive immune system. The allergic immune system misidentifies an otherwise innocuous substance as harmful, and then attacks the substance with a ferocity far greater than required.
Laying off an employee is different from firing an employee. Firing means letting a worker go for any reason, whereas a layoff refers to an employment termination based on economics, usually involving more than one worker.
The layoffs at ESPN are broad and do not target a specific area of the operation. ESPN is laying off about 300 people worldwide, two-thirds at its Bristol headquarters, as the pressures of huge programming costs and a declining subscriber base hit a business that seemed invincible not many years ago.