21.   It also slashed payrolls, cutting the white-collar work force in half and the blue-collar work force by almost a quarter.

22.   It forces virtually every department to get by with less, lowers pension benefits and slashes payrolls.

23.   It is a lot easier to command a reduction in costs, by slashing the payroll.

24.   New York state and city officials continued to slash payrolls in their efforts to eliminate perpetual budget deficits.

25.   NorthPoint also warned it is putting pending orders on hold, will stop taking new orders and will slash its payroll to conserve cash.

26.   Overseas money managers say Telstra is attractive because it offers the prospect of rising profits in coming years as it slashes its payroll and expands its cellular phone business.

27.   Rather than closing branches, slashing payrolls and bundling their debt into securities, some chose to issue more shares.

28.   Slash the payroll!

29.   Some retailers are already slashing their payrolls at a time when they traditionally begin to bulk up.

30.   Spyglass slashed its payroll and scrambled into new niches of the software industry to replace its lost sales, which it succeeded in doing eventually.