51.   The company is trying to find new jobs for displaced workers, he said.

52.   The displaced workers were asked about earnings in their new and old jobs within a three-year period.

53.   The House version mirrors the Senate protections for displaced workers, but includes three unfortunate provisions that a conference committee should strike.

54.   The fight surrounds a federal law, known as COBRA, that allows displaced workers to keep their health benefits temporarily in many cases.

55.   The purpose of the Workforce Investment Act is to encourage displaced workers to acquire skills that job markets need.

56.   The proposal was aimed squarely at displaced blue-collar workers and, more pointedly, at the suburbanites with children who deserted his party in droves last month.

57.   They have beaten back a Democratic bill to pay health insurance premiums for displaced workers, something they say could lead to much greater federal involvement in health care.

58.   These days, that includes not just academically and economically disadvantaged recent high school students but displaced workers from a rapidly changing economy.

59.   Those were not encouraging words for displaced workers hoping for aid.

60.   Unlike Houston, suffering its own corporate calamity in the collapse of Enron, there are fewer apparent options for employing displaced workers.