61.   The company has laid off thousands of employees and sold divisions in response.

62.   The company is laying lines in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to offer cable TV service.

63.   The electricity company is already laying new connections to the evacuated villages, but the army has not sent in a single soldier.

64.   The fiber-optic cable the company is laying in major cities also can carry local calls.

65.   The impact on the cash reserves should now slow, he said, as GM stops further purchases of parts and because the company has laid off many workers.

66.   The most common complaints in the current downturn have come from older employees who claimed companies were specifically laying off workers who had the longest tenures and biggest paychecks.

67.   They expressed anxiety about the private sector, saying that companies often laid off workers unexpectedly and refused to give benefits to those in entry-level positions.

68.   This week, the San Francisco company laid off six people from its flagship magazine.

69.   This week, the same Swedish company laid down the clay court, but after some early complaints about sticky footing, the Americans now sound satisfied.

70.   To meet the task, the company laid off incompetent managers, jettisoned surplus workers, and prepared to sell shares on the domestic stock market.