1.   Kodak has traditionally cushioned its employment blows, offering employees rich severance packages to leave on their own, and limiting actual dismissals.

2.   Staff cutbacks, Espy said, would be realized through attrition, buyouts and simply not filling vacancies rather than through actual dismissals.

3.   The letter provided Medlock ammunition that his actual dismissal was in response to his discrimination charge.

4.   Actual dismissal of the soccer leaders can only be decided by a meeting of all Hungarian soccer clubs who are members of the national federation.