He had escaped layoffs in March, but feared he might not be so fortunate.
Ms. Feibel escaped the layoffs, but her beat was switched.
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With unemployment at a record 28 percent, fewer workers are paying into the funds, which have been sapped, too, by the early retirements of thousands of civil servants scrambling to escape forced transfers and layoffs.
Her husband, Brad, who works in the auto-parts industry, had barely escaped three rounds of layoffs.
Industry watchers said the unexpectedly strong January, which pushed action film "Taken" to the top this weekend, suggested that movies were benefiting from the economic downturn by providing a relatively cheap escape from the drumbeat of layoffs, bankruptcies and other bad news.
Like the Depression-era readers who fueled blockbuster sales of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," today's readers are looking for an escape from the grim realities of layoffs, foreclosures and shrinking 401(k) balances.
The removal created a lot of muttering, but the cost-cutting — including layoffs — and promises of future profit helped Amazon escape the jaws of doom.
Many come to escape dead-end jobs or to acquire a safety net against layoffs.
Layoffs followed layoffs.
