1.   Some newly minted salesmen and saleswomen have been laid off from other jobs.

2.   We sought out people who had been laid off from large corporations and were forced to create new lives.

3.   Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.

4.   And West, of Manhattan, was laid off from her job as a public relations representative shortly after the attacks.

5.   Another woman in the market said she was laid off from a fruit factory.

6.   Anna Johnson, an Oakland woman laid off from a software company in April, turned to temping rather than deplete her savings account.

7.   At one point, Alvarez was laid off from the garment factory, and he went to work for a restaurant.

8.   Before finding her current job, Mrs. Kalobanova said, she was twice laid off from state-owned factories that collapsed shortly after communism did four years ago.

9.   Bolles had absolutely nothing to do with the career advice field until he and some colleagues were getting laid off from church jobs.

10.   A year later, Freddie is laid off from her job as an assembly-line worker.