71.   Critics of a wage increase maintain that businesses, especially small businesses, are hurt by the raises and tend to lay off workers rather than increase their pay.

72.   Delta Air Lines will lay off fewer workers than it expected because more employees are participating in early retirement and voluntary leave and severance programs.

73.   Darryl ought to lay off scapegoating New York.

74.   District officials also watch for business busts, ready to recruit professionals in private industry after companies lay off large numbers of employees, Avant said.

75.   Defending the action, the governor said the measure would discourage companies from moving to Massachusetts and would prompt existing state employers to lay off thousands of low-income workers.

76.   During the summer and fall after the rampage, few customers trickled in, but Bouloukos refused to lay off any workers.

77.   Direct shipping links have also begun with the Taiwan islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which lie just off the mainland coast.

78.   Editors have agreed, reluctantly, to lay off Clinton sex jokes during the visit.

79.   Emergency status gives the university the right to lay off tenured professors and close departments.

80.   Employers and Republicans argue that higher minimum wages will force businesses to lay off workers, trim budgets and increase prices.