1.   Once the market expands and matures, many companies dismiss their agents and enter direct selling or open a subsidiary company.

2.   Baker complained to the EEOC that the company dismissed him, in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, after he suffered a seizure.

3.   Before leaving, he did pass modest reforms to reduce the growth of pensions, make it easier for companies to dismiss workers and reduce sick leave.

4.   But if business turns bad, as it has now, companies can dismiss them as soon as their contracts run out.

5.   But the company dismissed it as a routine and groudless response to a complaint by a single franchisee.

6.   But under Korean law, it is illegal for a company to dismiss workers unless the company is in dire straits.

7.   Companies dismissed the stock decline as a sign of highly speculative trading.

8.   Corporate downsizing is continuing, but economists note that while companies may dismiss one type of worker, they often hire others.

9.   Generating companies have dismissed that figure as grossly inflated.

10.   Government officials have long threatened to arrest the leaders of the strikes, which were called to protest new legislation that makes it easier for companies to dismiss workers.