1.   Also cited have been worker beatings, mass firings based on political beliefs and torture.

2.   Chernomyrdin would become prime minister and Yeltsin would restrain his proclivity for mass firings.

3.   Indeed, company executives have always bragged about avoiding mass firings when acquiring smaller firms and used that as a selling point to recruit key hires.

4.   That could mean mass firings to boost productivity.

5.   The mass firings that characterize corporate efforts to cut costs and reduce bureaucracy are good for women, the chairman of the Financial Executives Institute said.

6.   The mass firing of the umpires?

7.   Within days of the mass firings, and perhaps to protect him from violent reprisals, Xia was transferred to the provincial capital.

8.   Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov dismissed his government Thursday, sharply criticizing some ministers but giving no immediate reason for the mass firing, a Russian news agency said.

9.   Company officials deny mass firings.

10.   Fernandez created government jobs for his supporters, too, but not by mass firings.