1.   Businesses were tightening their belts and cutting jobs.

2.   If you cut too many jobs, you overload the remaining employees.

3.   Manufacturers cut jobs during November in response to weak consumer spending.

4.   Many industries have been forced to cut jobs and it looks like the electronics industry is going the same way.

5.   Merrill Lynch traditionally cuts jobs in January following the end of its fiscal year.

6.   They will cut salaries before they cut jobs.

7.   Workers at Rosyth Royal Dockyard have been told that jobs could be cut by a third over the next twelve years.

8.   The packaging industry claims the tax will force it to change production methods and cut jobs.

9.   Today Barclaycard announced it has to cut costs and cut jobs.

10.   The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has cut forty jobs at its sites across the country.