51.   Many of these women, who include workers laid off from ailing state-run factories, are bewildered by the rapid change, and are having difficulty adapting.

52.   Meantime, Chuck was laid off from the state transportation department.

53.   Mrs. Maesubin said her two sons, laid off from their jobs in Bangkok, are returning soon to the village.

54.   Nearly three-fifths of those laid off from wage and salary jobs found new jobs that paid the same or more.

55.   Muse was laid off from his job as a machinist two years ago, but he came to the flyover anyway, to be part of it.

56.   Neighbors said that Vance Digman, who was laid off from the Portsmouth Naval Air Station, had been working at the New Boston Air Station recently.

57.   Normally a worker temporarily laid off from the job can obtain unemployment insurance benefits.

58.   One is Sergio Garcia, a former oil-production analyst who was laid off from Chevron when his entire division was eliminated three years ago.

59.   One morning, a tall Albanian immigrant, laid off from a construction job, walked into Team System.

60.   One marketing executive laid off from a large consumer products company never let on that she had a lawyer coaching her behind the scenes.