Sentence examples for slashing payrolls from inspiring English sources

It does so by snapping up rivals, adopting their new drugs, while slashing payrolls and research budgets.

The mine companies responded with large-scale dismissals and lockouts, slashing payrolls and diminishing the power of the union.

Japanese companies have been closing factories, slashing payrolls and cutting other costs to try to regain their competitiveness.

But no one expected that the stock market would keep sliding, or that Wall Street would finally start slashing payrolls.

Petty crime is rising in both cities in the continuing absence of effective police, and businesses are slashing payrolls in response to pinched demand.

Companies are slashing payrolls: 3.6 million people have lost their jobs since the recession started, with half of those getting laid off in just the past three months.

Some of the highest-profile retailers to flop in recent years were companies that made a big deal of slashing payroll costs.

Under the previous ownership, which was slashing payroll, the Marlins acquired Mike Piazza in 1998 and traded him to the Mets a week later.

Donnie Walsh spent his first two years as the team's president patiently slashing payroll, which finally translated into the free-agent signing of Stoudemire last summer and the trade for Anthony this winter.

Jamie McCourt's lawyer, David Boies had artfully kept Frank on the stand for the final three days of the first week of the trial, leaving his admissions that slashing payroll and increasing tickets were part of the business plan to linger in the public eye.

Angelinos have learned that the endgame of increasing ticket prices and slashing payroll has been the McCourts' taking out tens of millions in equity loans against the team — not to spring for an ace pitcher, but for opulent mansions and a Champagne lifestyle.