71.   Six months after Asymetrix Corp. cut staff to focus on multimedia products, the Bellevue, Washington-based software company is introducing three new Internet development tools.

72.   Since then, Sabah has closed one newspaper, the respected Yeni Binyil, and cut staff sharply elsewhere, including at the mass-circulation Sabah.

73.   Some companies have already begun cutting staff.

74.   Staffs were cut and the number of foreign bureaus drastically reduced.

75.   Stable, if not lower, newsprint prices would help newspaper publishers, which have been cutting staff and boosting newsstand prices to compensate for rapidly increasing paper costs.

76.   Staffs have been cut, artists have been jettisoned and project lists have been pared.

77.   Svehla said he expects banks will cut staff as they buy new technology, hopefully keeping the smartest, and best-trained bankers.

78.   The American Management Association, in its surveys, finds that a majority of companies that cut staff have failed to increase productivity a year or two later.

79.   The changes came three days after the company announced the departure of five top executives and said its headquarters staff would be cut by one quarter.

80.   The companies said they have no plans to cut staff in the merger.