Sentence examples for Trim the payroll from inspiring English sources

If he were running a team, he said, he might trim the payroll to build for the future.

To cut costs, he said, I.B.M. planned to take most of $1 billion yearly in charges to trim the payroll in the current quarter.

Hewlett-Packard is on target to trim the payroll by 10,000 this year, aiming at a total of 15,000 by next year.

Despite an inspired 2003 season, ownership in Toronto ordered General Manager J. P. Ricciardi to trim the payroll from $53 million to $50 million.

One of Mr Pittman's first tasks was to trim the payroll, which he did unapologetically, by 2,400.What complicates Mr Pittman's job is that, in the past, Time Warner was run as a collection of independent fiefs.

(Reuters) MIDDLE EAST LIBYA: TRIMMING THE PAYROLL -- The country's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, proposed hiring a foreign auditing firm to study ways for the state to trim its public payroll, which is approaching two million employees.

As county executive, he has trimmed the payroll and gone on a building campaign, constructing or renovating office buildings, jails and schools.

Ms. Fiorina trimmed the payroll, reduced travel spending and closed offices, but cost-cutting could not keep pace with the falloff in business.

The company will take a third-quarter charge of as much as $700 million to cover the costs of trimming the payroll, the chief executive, Lawrence Bossidy, said at an investor meeting.

Much of the focus is on trimming the payroll through retirements, a hiring freeze, and, as a last resort, layoffs, said the T official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

They held a fire sale to dump old inventory and eliminated more than a thousand temporary and full-time employees, trimming the payroll by one-third.