1.   A corporate-ordered staff cutback hit the recently hired.

2.   All agreed that staff cutbacks will be substantial.

3.   But several city officials involved in the deal said that the private contractor had been dawdling in completing the paperwork and in confronting the unions about planned staff cutbacks.

4.   During the Reagan administration and to a lesser extent under President George Bush, the antitrust division and the FTC were backwaters that suffered from severe staff cutbacks.

5.   Eventually, staff cutbacks were made, and the merger was profitable for Ebner.

6.   He predicted that the Raytheon and Texas Instrument operations would complement each other so well, with little overlap, that sales would grow with no staff cutbacks necessary.

7.   Once an untouchable island within CBS News, late last year it faced production staff cutbacks for the first time in memory.

8.   Staff cutbacks had drained the experience pool and dashed morale, according to Worth, a one-time gate agent himself.

9.   The new Medicare rules have shrunk these margins, forcing mergers, staff cutbacks and the decisions by some universities to sell their money-losing hospitals.

10.   The National Council of Churches, just completing a major reorganization, is looking at a new round of staff cutbacks next week.