1.   Where piece-rate systems were in use, employers tended to cut wages by increasing the quantum rather than changing the price.

2.   But real wages were not cut.

3.   A week earlier, the Association of Flight Attendants rejected a contract that would have cut wages.

4.   But as consumers make fewer trips to the mall or the auto showroom, businesses also may be forced to lay off workers or cut wages.

5.   But employers do not cut wages.

6.   But their fears for their own livelihoods, that managed care would cut their wages or drive them out of medicine, are proving overdrawn.

7.   Employers say the plan would increase costs and cut net wages.

8.   For example, companies, denied a tax break for employer-provided health insurance, would be tempted to curtail those benefits or cut wages.

9.   In an effort to save money, Pullman cut wages for his workers, but refused to lower rent.

10.   It cut wages of its workers, but not by enough.