41.   To cope, many companies have been freezing wages and reducing payrolls -- making consumers reluctant to spend.

42.   To avoid paying hefty taxes, the players maintain, clubs would reduce their payrolls to the threshold.

43.   Unless the two companies move to unify their sales operations and reduce payroll, the gains of a partial linkage are unlikely to be great, Sasaki said.

44.   Until February, the most recent increase had come in July, when companies reduced their payrolls but government agencies made up for the loss.

45.   Watson knows he might have to reduce his payroll, but he is not eager to lose Fielder.

46.   While firing is taboo in Japan, managers are reducing payrolls by hiring fewer young people and urging or pressuring middle-aged men to take early retirement.

47.   Willes said the company planned to reduce its payroll through a mix of early retirements and layoffs.

48.   With Boone recovered from his injury and Bowden looking to reduce payroll by trading a number of his arbitration-eligible players, Stynes was dealt to the Sox.

49.   With the drastic reduction in revenue, some clubs with high payrolls would face great difficulty in reducing those payrolls to conform to a reduced payroll cap.

50.   Anthony Garotinho, the populist governor-elect of Rio, said he would oppose an idea of reducing the payroll to save money.