21.   The changes planned by the banks include trimming staff, cutting salaries and bonuses, closing branches, and reducing the number of directors.

22.   The companies, including steel and auto parts makers, will be able to keep employees on the payroll while management decides how to trim staff.

23.   The German company has no assets in the United States, would need a U.S. headquarters, and would have little incentive to trim staff in Kansas City.

24.   The slowdown has led some businesses to trim staff who would ordinarily be serving international tourists and business travelers.

25.   The school district, forced to trim staff for budget reasons, chose to keep the black teacher because she was the only black in her department.

26.   To accomplish that, it cut costs and trimmed its staff, of course.

27.   When Equifax trimmed its staff, Fort lost his job and began what would be a four-month search for a new job in corporate communications.

28.   Bruce Harting, an analyst with Lehman Brothers in New York, said analysts had expected Sovereign to trim staff throughout the conversion of the New England branches.

29.   Federal agencies often trim staff without planning for how to deal with the effects, and cut benefits and training for the workers who remained, the report said.

30.   His resignation follows a decision by the institute to trim its staff in half after donors slashed funding.