But gains in other units lessened the blow.
And why pass them around to buddies back home or fellow soldiers in other units?
Prosecutors in other units in the office, he said, also work at times on political corruption cases.
The mortality rate for someone in E.O.D. if they go to Iraq or Afghanistan is much higher than for soldiers in other units.
The evidence I see in other units around me is the same: the United States Army is about to see a mass exodus from its Reserve.
Creedon said it was highly possible that the tactic was used by undercover officers in other units which infiltrated serious criminal gangs.
Some analysts said that while the sales of the company's PC unit were unusually strong, it covered weakness in other units.
"Sergeants in other units emailed me to say I made the right decision and that they would leave too if they could".
The layoffs, which will be concentrated in Burlington, Vt., and Fishkill, N.Y., come in addition to about 4,500 job cuts I.B.M. has made in other units, including its server division and software group.
A spokeswoman, Norma Dunn, said that El Paso, based in Houston, would cut 300 jobs from the trading unit, or 2percentt of its workers, and that employees in other units would be laid off later.
The expected cuts in other units range from $2 million in the office of program development, which includes the offices of bilingual education and assessment and accountability, to $650,000 in the division of instruction.
