1.   TEXTILE companies in the Borders are facing an unexpected staff shortage in the week when national unemployment figures are expected to top three million.

2.   Almost every U.S. textile company is a victim.

3.   As such, Mestrallet pulled the plug on several ailing industrial dinosaurs, including textile company Boussac and metalworks Creusot-Loire.

4.   At the time of his arrest Azzam was employed as a technical consultant for the Israeli textile company Tefron.

5.   After graduating from Keio University, the young Hashimoto joined a textile company.

6.   But what is good for Taiwan textile companies in Vietnam may also be good for Caterpillar.

7.   Credit Lyonnais said it agreed to sell its MGM Netherlands movie-theater operations to the French media and textiles company Chargeurs SA.

8.   Earlier this month, Credit Lyonnais said it agreed to sell its MGM Netherlands movie theaters to French media and textiles company Chargeurs SA for an undisclosed sum.

9.   Ellerth, a marketing assistant for the textile manufacturing company, interpreted the comment as presenting her a choice between acquiescence or unemployment.

10.   Hollings has long sought to protect textile companies in his home state from the low-priced exports of clothing from Asia and Latin America.