He said the company planned to reduce its work force by 1,000, or about 3 percent, over the next year.

Since taking office, for example, he has reduced the size of the city's payroll by about 20,000 workers, or nearly 9 percent.

Delta has reduced staff by about 10,000, or 15 percent, over the last year.

That deal will reduce the combined control of production to about 50 percent.

A good target is to reduce the growth rate of health care costs by half - down to about 3 percent a year.

Over the last six years, its staff has been reduced by 50,127 people, to 146,604, or about 25 percent.

Last year, the companies agreed with Alaska state officials to reduce their control to about 55 percent.

On paper that would have reduced the Government's 1997 deficit to about 3 percent of total output.

Major oil producers agreed to reduce production by about 1.72 million barrels, or 8 percent.

With attrition, the state's work force would be reduced by about 18,000 positions, or 10 percent.