21.   Perry said Thursday that the plan to shift work to the private sector could be used in both California and Texas.

22.   Retailers, too, are cutting costs through outsourcing, but they are doing it by shifting work from paid employees to customers.

23.   Shifting work to lower-cost cities, a practice that has been popular for decades among manufacturers, is now common among service companies, too.

24.   Should a system failure or power outage cripple the primary equipment, the work can be shifted directly to remote site through fiber-optic lines.

25.   Some campuses have already reduced their numbers of remedial students by changing admissions standards or shifting remedial work from the classroom to individual or computer-based tutoring.

26.   The insult of having been forced out has been somewhat offset by the welcome she received from former colleagues who quickly shifted work to her.

27.   The union has complained about GM shifting work to Mexico, where wire harnesses are assembled using parts from the Warren plant.

28.   To improve operating efficiencies, Boeing has been streamlining its space and defense operations throughout the company, and shifting more work to outside contractors.

29.   Unions and politicians protested the decision to shift work from the plant, which is said to have increased its efficiency in recent years.

30.   Workers said today they were determined to prevent Chrysler from shifting work to suppliers at their plant and at others around the country.