11.   Even before the decision to reduce the number of residents, Massachusetts hospitals had begun shedding workers.

12.   General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler have shed workers for years amid feverish international competition and pressure to boost efficiency.

13.   Government and the health-care industry, which have traditionally provided work for inner-city residents, are shedding workers and are likely to shed many more.

14.   In July as in other months, larger companies shed workers while mid-size and smaller companies added workers.

15.   Leaner inventories are the latest move by oil companies to cut costs after years of shedding workers.

16.   Like every office owner in that period, its tenant rolls shrank as corporations merged, moved and shed workers.

17.   Large Japanese companies continued to shed workers in an effort to restructure.

18.   Many other companies have shed workers since then because of the downturn in the economy.

19.   On the retail side, restaurants, clothing and grocery stores shed workers.

20.   Restaurants are shedding workers, too.