41.   Besides keeping a leaner staff at all times, struggling companies reluctant to lay off workers have had to resort to some creative cost-cutting.

42.   Boeing, however, retained the right to hire outside contractors and to lay off workers in other circumstances, such as a downturn in airplane orders.

43.   A loss of business then led UPS to lay off several thousand Teamsters for months.

44.   A prominent Boston law firm said Monday that a slowdown in business because of the economic downturn had forced it to lay off about a dozen associates.

45.   A spokesperson for ValuJet said that with the fleet grounded, the company will have to lay off its entire maintenance division.

46.   A tangle of abandoned clothes, half-covered in sand, lies just off the desert track.

47.   ACT Networks will lay off one-fourth of its employees after the company reported poor fourth-quarter and year-end results.

48.   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.

49.   Along the way, clubs would continue to lay off staff, including scouts.

50.   Boone works with him in the cage to lay off high pitches he might pop up and to wait for a better pitch.