Sentence examples for payroll down from inspiring English sources

The Yankees have many good prospects, but with the new collective bargaining agreement providing incentives to keep the payroll down, they would have to be blown away to trade them.

He was available because the Expos had to keep their payroll down, basically at no more than $45 million, because their owners, Major League Baseball and the owners of the 29 other teams, said so.

"That I ought to keep payroll down," Eshbach later told me.

As a result, he resorted to layoffs earlier this year that brought his total payroll down to 50 from about 80.

At the end of September, Goldman had 32,600 staff consultants and temporary workers on the payroll, down 5 percent from a year ago.

Even if they do bring the payroll down to the $189 million limit they covet, they will still outspend most competitors, even if you exclude the huge sum being paid to A-Rod.

About 29percentt of businesses expected to increase payrolls, down from 43percentt in July.

Enron's payroll is down to 10,300 employees around the world, compared with 32,000 before the company collapsed into labyrinthine Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Payroll is down, too: banks have eliminated tens of thousands of jobs in the past couple of years and are now embarking on a new round of severe job cuts.

The two men cultivate relationships -- the house in which they're shooting the party scene, like many of the film's locations, is a friend's -- and many of the people on today's payroll, right down to the extras, have been in previous productions.

The payroll went down and so did the quality of the players they signed.