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frames- The company recently said 0 [ARG0 it] [ARGM-MOD would] sell some operations and [rel lay] off [ARG1 4 % of its work force] , [ARGM-ADV altogether *-1 reducing employment to less than 16,000 from about 18,000] .
- Xerox Corp. has told employees in its Crum & Forster personal insurance operations that [ARG0 it] is [rel laying] off [ARG1 about 300 people , or 25 % of the staff] .
- That is at the high end of the range of [ARG1 7,000 to 8,000 employees] that Unisys said a month ago 0 *T*-2 [ARGM-MOD would] be [rel laid] *-1 off .
- `` [ARGM-TMP When someone says , ` I 've turned to God *T*-1] , ' [ARG0 everybody] [rel lays] off , '' observes *T*-2 Frank Mankiewicz , an old Washington hand and former aide to Robert Kennedy .
- American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said 0 [ARG0 it] [ARGM-MOD will] [rel lay] off [ARG1 75 to 85 technicians] [ARGM-LOC here] , [ARGM-ADV * effective Nov. 1] .
- The result is that [ARG0 some franchisees] are running hard *-1 just to stay even , *-1 [rel laying] off [ARG1 middle managers] and working harder *-2 to make less .
- *-2 Suffering from a downturn in heavy truck production that *T*-1 cut orders for its engines , Caterpillar also said 0 [ARG0 it] [ARGM-MOD will] [ARGM-MNR indefinitely] [rel lay] off [ARG1 about 325 workers in the Peoria area] and temporarily shut its plant in York , Pa. , for two weeks in both November and December .
- [ARG1 About 5,500 hourly workers] [ARGM-MOD will] be [rel laid] *-3 off [ARGM-TMP for a week] [ARGM-TMP beginning Oct. 23] , and overtime has been eliminated *-1 at the plant for the fourth quarter , a Chrysler spokesman said 0 *T*-2 .
- Bank of New England Corp. , *-1 seeking *-2 to streamline its business after a year of weak earnings and mounting loan problems , said 0 [ARG0 it] [ARGM-MOD will] sell some operations and [rel lay] off [ARG1 4 % of its work force] .
- Among its restructuring measures , the company said 0 [ARG0 it] plans *-1 to sell 53 of its 453 branch offices and to [rel lay] off [ARG1 800 employees] .
- [ARG0 Bank of New England] plans *-1 to sell some operations and [rel lay] off [ARG1 4 % of its work force] after a year of weak earnings and mounting loan problems .
- [ARG1 I] was [rel laid] *-1 off [ARGM-TMP in August 1988] , and after a thorough and exhausting job search , was hired *-1 in August 1989 .
- I think 0 what *T*-1 bothered me most about the piece was that there seemed *-2 to be an underlying attitude * to tell your readers 0 all is well -- if [ARG1 you] 're getting [rel laid] *-3 off * do n't worry , and if you 're unemployed , it 's a seller 's market .