Combined, their payrolls fell about $2 million short of the number you won't see next year.

Since last March, manufacturing payrolls have fallen by nearly a quarter of a million jobs as companies cut production and struggle to rein in costs.

Private-sector payrolls fell by another 73,000 jobs in July, roughly similar to the pace in recent months.

But the employment data showed that manufacturing payrolls fell by 35,000 jobs last month and were down by 374,000 since March 1998.

By 1996, the payroll had fallen to 3,000 full-time employees while services improved according to many groups that studied the parks.

Non-agricultural payrolls fell by 76,000, but the decline was less than a third the drop in November.

Private-sector payrolls did fall significantly in May, but modest increases during the other months of the year have made up for the decline.

By contrast, payrolls fell by a 2.3 million jobs between July 1990 and April 1991.

By 1999, the team's payroll had fallen again to $16.5 million.

The exploration and production industry's payrolls fell to 314,000 in November, down about 25,000 from a year earlier.