71.   It generally pits Republicans who want to take punitive steps to force people off the rolls against Democrats who say that such efforts are shortsighted.

72.   It is expected to cut the rates again Tuesday to encourage businesses to stop laying people off and begin investing again.

73.   Keeping people off welfare requires more funding for mass transit, child care and job training.

74.   Kasdan lets Mumford sort through its problems, finding ways to pair people off in reliable romantic-comedy fashion.

75.   Luzhkov also oversaw the reimplementation of draconian Soviet-era rules and practices to keep homeless people off the streets.

76.   Meanwhile, companies nationwide that once were employing large numbers of welfare recipients are laying people off.

77.   Maybe if you try to talk to me I could at least try to get people off your back.

78.   Mortgage banks added employees from September to October, even as other financial-services firms were laying people off.

79.   Mr. Jones said the increase in poverty was especially alarming given local and national efforts to move people off welfare programs by tightening eligibility requirements or imposing time limits.

80.   Mr. Clinton wants businesses to hire more people off welfare rolls.