31.   Whenever managers were laid off, he sensed in the ranks ever-higher levels of anxiety Even those who remained were running scared.

32.   Workers who are laid off should quickly find reemployment by offering to work for lower wages.

33.   Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.

34.   Your nurse has probably been laid off.

35.   Wages have been frozen and workers laid off.

36.   ...as we tally the number of workers who have been laid off this year.

37.   The company has disclosed that it will be laying off thousands of workers later this year.

38.   While the company laid off some employees, others had hopes of keeping their jobs.

39.   All nonessential personnel had to be laid off.

40.   A surprising number of people were laid off at the factory.