31.   Doctors have increasingly turned to practice-management companies to help trim costs and win contracts with cost-conscious managed health-care plans.

32.   Employees were also encouraged to take pay cuts or additional vacation days in an effort to trim costs.

33.   Earlier this month the chain announced that it was firing a quarter of its headquarters staff to trim costs.

34.   Executives at the network also said CBS would be able to trim costs by combining the back-office operations of radio and television stations in the same markets.

35.   Exports may also have picked up because Swiss companies trim costs and move production abroad in order to compete with foreign companies.

36.   Falling rates show that investors see interest rates falling, trimming the cost of borrowing for companies and customers and boosting corporate profits.

37.   Falling rates show that investors see interest rates falling, which could trim the cost of borrowing for companies and customers and boost corporate profits down the road.

38.   Falling rates also trim borrowing costs for companies and consumers and, thereby, give corporate profits a boost.

39.   Federated, the largest U.S. department store retailer, worked with suppliers to trim distribution costs and other expenses as it sold more designer goods.

40.   Financial services companies are joining forces to trim costs and increase revenue.