1.   Companies fired workers to save money.

2.   Flexibility for employers means new chances to save money and to fire unwanted workers.

3.   Since the arrests, the company has fired one worker and suspended three others, Maher said.

4.   The terminal workers were fired, and they lost their health and welfare benefits.

5.   She had to fire several workers.

6.   Also, employers had an incentive to fire their workers before they accumulated too many years of service.

7.   Ampad, the company in question, bought a paper plant in Indiana and proceeded to fire striking workers.

8.   An Ingersoll spokesman declined to say how many workers would be fired.

9.   And where the American firm hired and fired workers at will, the Japanese corporation has a life-long commmitment.

10.   Apple has said it plans to cut costs by firing workers and using fewer custom-made parts.