11.   A skeleton staff has been maintaining the building but lacks the money to care for runaways.

12.   A skeleton staff was at work Wednesday at the Orange County Convention Center, where exhibitors for the American Academy of Family Physicians were allowed to set up.

13.   A skeleton staff will stay on duty, including people to run the reservations system computers.

14.   After selecting a site, players place the initial rides, hire a skeleton staff, and throw open the gates.

15.   Albright, responding to intelligence reports, ordered U.S. embassies in Albania, Egypt and Pakistan reduced to skeleton staffs until the crisis eases.

16.   Doctors and nurses from the overnight shift remained on duty to form a skeleton staff with nurses pulled in from other areas of the medical center.

17.   Even those companies that have not shut down are operating with skeleton staffs as their expatriate employees are evacuated.

18.   For eight weeks, the Detroit Newspaper Agency used a skeleton staff to produce a joint paper, prompting a federal antitrust investigation.

19.   Furthermore, layoffs will be negligible in San Francisco, where the company maintains little more than a skeleton staff.

20.   Hardest hit Thursday were two well-known Hollywood-based labels that were left with little more than skeleton staffs.