11.   Arizona state park officials fired an employee last week after he wrote an opinion piece for the Boston Globe criticizing the artificiality of a popular new state park.

12.   As a result of the scrutiny, three GCI employees were fired, one of them indicted.

13.   As a result, it had to fire countless employees.

14.   Assembled only a few years before Sen. Joseph McCarthy began his communist witch-hunts, the panel standardized procedures for firing government employees suspected of treason.

15.   A medical study has found that managers run twice their normal risk of heart attack the week after they fire an employee or face a high-pressure deadline.

16.   A look at its effects, and how hospital employees are being fired.

17.   A merger could pay off because the two thrifts could slash costs by closing overlapping branches and firing employees.

18.   Alex went to work for Netpliance Inc., which never made a profit and had to fire employees in February.

19.   All this monitoring is leading employers to accumulate large databases of information that can be used to fire unsuspecting employees, the report said.

20.   Brazilian interest rates were little changed and currency futures slightly weaker after the approval of a measure making it easier to fire government employees.