1.   A fall in consumer spending would further damage corporate profits, potentially causing more layoffs and sending the economy into a recession.

2.   Gillette denies that the crises overseas have caused the layoffs.

3.   Lotus employees heard from the ultimate authority that the takeover would cause no layoffs.

4.   Opponents say they end up punishing the poor by causing layoffs of some low-paid workers.

5.   One of the two projects at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, however, may cause the layoffs of hundreds of employees.

6.   That and other austere economic measures caused massive layoffs in which some of the newly unemployed were given buyouts by their firms.

7.   Sure, corporate downsizings, relocations and revamping of product lines are causing mass layoffs at some companies.

8.   The collapse of Internet companies in the United States has caused layoffs of thousands of skilled software engineers.

9.   The poor should not be hurt until high interest rates slow the economy enough to cause more layoffs.

10.   While acknowledging that technology might reduce the number of jobs, management negotiators promised that it would not cause layoffs for any current workers.