51.   Eventually, however, the state hopes to ease people off welfare entirely.

52.   Feeding stations draw people off their land, leaving them unable to support themselves.

53.   Firms have returned, but they are laying people off.

54.   For one thing, it helps keep people off welfare.

55.   For the most part, it does not seek to get people off drugs but merely to help them use drugs more safely.

56.   Guarnier said the hustlers catch people off guard because many are distressed after hours and sometimes days of traveling.

57.   He came to spend a prefunctory hour with the media in the hopes that he could get people off his back once and for all.

58.   He increased funds for training, job placement and child care fivefold to help move people off welfare.

59.   He kept people off balance.

60.   He did not mention throwing people off the welfare roles or fume about the possibility of court-enforced busing.