1.   After the close of trading, the Milwaukee-based bank posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter profits and said it would trim its staff.

2.   But many recent graduates cannot find hospital work because institutions are trimming nursing staffs.

3.   By substituting home-grown produce for imported ingredients and trimming his staff, he has managed to hold down prices.

4.   Companies, too, are trimming staff.

5.   Congress has forced it to trim its staff in recent years.

6.   Disney executives will gauge the effect of these recent cuts before trimming staff any further, he said.

7.   Dry cleaner Peter Toumayan said he feels lucky to have some customers not in show business, but still figures a strike will mean trimming his staff.

8.   Even Internet success stories like Amazon.com and iVillage.com recently had to trim their staffs for economic reasons.

9.   Enron Broadband started to trim its staff shortly after.

10.   Hechinger and Comsat -- both headquartered in Maryland -- also are trimming staff as a way to cut costs and get an edge on competitors.