11.   However, the walkout underscores difficulty the company will have in shedding jobs as it struggles to increase efficiency to meet competition from a host of nimble competitors.

12.   In the U.S., where employers are already shedding jobs, the Federal Reserve has yet to cut rates.

13.   Industries that have been shedding jobs continued to do so.

14.   Jobs will be shed within the next two weeks.

15.   Manufacturers, which have felt the brunt of the slowdown, again shed jobs, though at the slowest pace so far this year.

16.   Manufacturers and construction companies both shed jobs in September.

17.   Many companies are still shedding jobs.

18.   NTT has been busily shedding jobs and reorganizing business operations over the last year in what it says is a bid to make itself a leaner organization.

19.   Other large phone companies are shedding jobs.

20.   SBC is just the latest telephone company to shed jobs amid the economic slowdown.