MEMO: MORE JOB CUTS IN BIG EMPLOYERS

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Monday, February 5, 2001

In just a few hours last week, some of the nation's largest employers -- Black & Decker, Brunswick, JCPenney, Sara Lee and Standard Register -- announced they would collectively eliminate nearly 16,000 jobs. That came just days after Lucent Technologies announced 16,000 job cuts.

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