11.   In the meantime, the authorities have trimmed their staffs, leaving maintenance and janitorial positions unfilled.

12.   IVillage.com says it has never laid off employees for economic reasons and has not recently trimmed its staff.

13.   Lawsuit waivers are commonly required by companies across the country who want to trim staffs by offering early retirement incentives without opening themselves to age-bias lawsuits.

14.   Much of the savings have come from trimming staff.

15.   Over time, the merged medical center would have had to trim some staff and combine some departments to become more efficient and more attractive to managed care companies.

16.   Some art was sold to raise money, the staff trimmed.

17.   Some have already trimmed staffs, making it harder for them to resurrect services if they do receive money.

18.   Still, it trimmed its staff and cut the number of grants by almost half.

19.   Tabacalera is continuing efforts to trim its staff through early retirements and other incentives.

20.   The chancellor and the central Board of Education say they would allow such changes in districts that demonstrated they had trimmed administrative staffs all they could.