21.   DaimlerChrysler has also slashed jobs at its Freightliner truck and bus business in the United States.

22.   Glaxo said overlapping jobs would be slashed to make the deal work financially, although it has not hinted a precise numbers.

23.   Hitachi is among the major Japanese corporations to have slashed jobs recently.

24.   In recent years, all the banks making up the Big Four have been slashing jobs by the hundreds and closing dozens of branches to cut costs.

25.   Jobs were slashed, the stock market plunged and their currency withered.

26.   Jobs were slashed at other state operations and unions were kept under tight control.

27.   Lucent has responded by slashing jobs and selling off parts of the company.

28.   The company joins a long list of major technology names slashing jobs in a bid to weather the economic downturn.

29.   The telecoms company is reportedly considering a bold restructuring plan to slash jobs and cut costs in an attempt to boost its competitiveness in Japan.

30.   Unemployment bites in Hong Kong as Asian turmoil slashes jobs.