11.   In trimming their payroll, the Knicks divested themselves of Charles Smith and Herb Williams, two adults any company should want to keep.

12.   It was a way for the company to give something back to the community while trimming its payroll.

13.   Krause reorganizes management, cuts losing operations, trims payroll, negotiates with creditors and secures new equity as necessary.

14.   Many wrote off the Royals when they trimmed their payroll by letting go of three important players.

15.   Nervous businesses responded by cutting back production and trimming their payrolls.

16.   New U.S. applications for state unemployment insurance rose unexpectedly last week, suggesting companies continue to trim their payrolls to cut costs.

17.   On the other hand, car sales in July were poor and manufacturers have been trimming their payrolls.

18.   Other clubs also are looking at short-term problems, mostly because they are over the salary cap and must begin to trim payrolls.

19.   Schools, like corporations and governments, are also trimming their payrolls.

20.   Should he sell, probably to a large group of investors led by team president Don Smiley, the new ownership may trim the payroll.