31.   A heavy police presence scared people off the streets amid reports of beatings and harassment of civilians.

32.   Additional spending will fund day care and job training programs designed to move people off the welfare rolls.

33.   Air Canada has asked for government aid, and Aeromexico says it is laying people off.

34.   Airlines have been know to hire whole squadrons of aviators at once, only to lay them off when the economy keeps people off their planes.

35.   But advocates for coastal property owners called the report a thinly disguised effort to use federal insurance regulations to force people off the beach.

36.   But food stamps and Medicaid are considered vital entitlements that keep working people off welfare and the newly employed from slipping back on.

37.   But he needs guards next to him who can knock people off the ball and win the line of scrimmage.

38.   But now Boston Gas is laying people off.

39.   Candidates on both sides are also sounding very conservative as they talk of harnessing the role of government and emphasize taking people off welfare and keeping out immigrants.

40.   Certainly they had to lay some people off in order to compete, but the corporate callousness increased as the wave of layoffs continued.