111.   PacifiCare will eliminate overlapping jobs in marketing, administration and sales.

112.   Pulling the trees before the harvest eliminates jobs in the field and at the canneries at a time when jobs are badly needed in the valley, Martella said.

113.   Reich and Birmingham rejected the notion that raising the wage eliminates jobs, saying there is no credible study or evidence to support that notion.

114.   Rather than eliminate jobs, employers said they would adjust other aspects of their business equation to compensate for higher labor costs.

115.   Raytheon is offering severance pay and benefits to workers whose jobs are eliminated and will also give displaced workers first crack at jobs elsewhere in the Raytheon organization.

116.   San Francisco, the magazine formerly known as SF Focus, has not had to lay anyone off, although it did eliminate some jobs due to attrition.

117.   Several thousand other jobs would be eliminated in the companies that remain.

118.   Shoemate declined to say how many jobs would be eliminated as a result of the deal, which is scheduled to close in October.

119.   Some analysts speculated that several thousand jobs could be eliminated.

120.   Some businesses would go bankrupt and others would have to eliminate jobs in order to survive, the employers said.