101.   As a result, companies laid off hundreds of thousands of people.

102.   As a result, more and more businesses were laying off more and more employees.

103.   As a result, some talent agencies have laid off agents.

104.   As mortgage banking companies are forced to lay off employees and shrink their operations, lower earnings and depressed stock prices will follow, he said.

105.   As older machines that use Compaq-built motherboards are phased out, those workers will be laid off, he added.

106.   As the health system shifted toward managed care, hospitals merged, and nurses were laid off to cut costs.

107.   As part of that overhaul, many workers had already been laid off and Mrs. Stepp knew that in a few hours her supervisor would dismiss her, too.

108.   As profits fall further, companies will lay off workers and reduce production to respond to weakening consumer demand.

109.   As revenue continued to disappoint, Voter by mid-November laid off about half of its staff in an effort to show new investors it was serious about conserving money.

110.   As the economy slows and workers get laid off by the thousands, some fear that employee frustration may become more intense.