The smaller firms need to hire only dozens of the thousands of executives being dismissed to make a difference in their business, analysts said.

In 2002, the bank hired dozens of analysts and support workers to expand its European equity research business, only to close the business in 2003.

Mr. Klein also still needs to hire dozens of instructional leaders for his new special education and bilingual programs.

Today, big firms hire dozens of associates, knowing that many will leave in a few years.

Soon they were churning out short films and hiring dozens of aspiring actors.

He hired dozens of workers for his 4,200-acre ranch that teems with livestock.

The company has hired dozens, about a third of the more than 100 workers at its West Side plant.

Each large firm hires dozens of law students, most of them entering their third and final year of school, for two or three months.

But the agency has recently hired dozens of apprentices and says it has greatly increased its training efforts.

Minaya is scrambling to hire dozens of people for an organization with a life expectancy of one more year.