I mean, the chancellor himself says that he wants to cut 1,500 positions, but he's going to do it over three years.

International Paper said it was cutting 1,000 positions from its worldwide work force.

They fought over the Democrats' plan to cut 56 nonunion positions.

To make ends meet, he cut 42 positions from the staff and closed parts of the garden to the public.

Those comments prompted Thursday's meeting, during which city officials laid out their plan to cut 1,000 positions over the next year or two.

The 1,000 job cuts are in addition to Delta's plan to cut 7,000 positions through next year.

It decided recently to cut 100 positions at Connexion, or about 15 percent of its work force, by early next year.

Including jobs eliminated earlier this year, the company will cut more than 12,000 positions in 2004, pushing its work force below 50,000.

Yet the district wound up cutting only two administrative positions and put forward a budget with a 7 percent spending increase, she said.

In 1993, it cut about 50,000 positions and wound down its catalog sales unit.