The following chart is a selection of some first-quarter announcements of job cuts since the beginning of the year. Some numbers are estimates.

   Company Name              Date of      Number of     Percent                                                      Announcement    Jobs Cut     Work Force 
 
   Skyworks Solutions      01/ 
   Citrix Systems          01/28/2009        N/A            10% 
   Jabil Circuit           01/28/2009      3,000         4.92% 
   AOL                     01/28/2009        700         10% 
 
   Starbucks               01/28/2009      6,700        3.9% 
   SAP                     01/28/2009      3,000           6% 
   STMicroelectronics      01/28/2009      4,500           9% 
   Avery Dennison          01/27/2009      N/A             10% 
   Baker Hughes            01/27/2009      1,500           4% 
   Corning                 01/27/2009      3,500           13% 
   Cooper Industries       01/27/2009      2,200           7% 
   Clariant                01/27/2009      1,000           5% 
   Texas Instruments       01/26/2009      3,400           12% 
   Caterpillar             01/26/2009      20,000          18% 
   Home Depot              01/26/2009      7,000           2% 
   Sprint Nextel           01/26/2009      8,000           13% 
   Pfizer                  01/26/2009      8,300           10% 
   ING                     01/26/2009      7,000           5% 
   Philips Electronics     01/26/2009      6,000           5% 
   Corus                   01/26/2009      3,500           10% 
   Harley-Davidson         01/23/2009      1,100           11% 
   Microsoft               01/22/2009      5,000           5% 
   Huntsman                01/22/2009      1,175           9% 
   Intel                   01/21/2009      6,000***        7% 
   UAL                     01/21/2009      1,000           2% 
   Eaton                   01/20/2009      5,200           6% 
   Bose                    01/20/2009      1,000           10% 
   Rohm & Haas             01/20/2009      900             5.7% 
   Clear Channel           01/20/2009      1,850           9% 
   ConocoPhillips          01/16/2009      1,300           4% 
   Circuit City            01/16/2009      34,000          100%* 
   Pfizer                  01/16/2009      3,200**         3% 
   AMD                     01/16/2009      1,100           9% 
   Hertz Global Holdings   01/16/2009      4,000           13% 
   Wellpoint               01/16/2009      1,500           3.6% 
   Saks                    01/15/2009      1,100           9% 
   MeadWestvaco            01/15/2009      2,000           10% 
   Autodesk                01/15/2009      750             10% 
   Motorola                01/14/2009      4,000           6% 
   Barclays                01/14/2009      2,100           1.3% 
   Neiman Marcus           01/13/2009      375             3% 
   Cummins                 01/13/2009      800             2% 
   Seagate Technology      01/12/2009      800             10% 
   Cessna                  01/12/2009      2,000           N/A 
   Boeing                  01/09/2009      4,500           7%**** 
   Walgreen                01/08/2009      1,000           9% 
   Lenovo Group            01/08/2009      2,500           11% 
   EMC                     01/07/2009      2,400           7% 
   Logitech International  01/06/2009      500             5% 
   Alcoa                   01/06/2009      15,000          14.5% 
   Cigna                   01/05/2009      1,100           4% 
 
   *Company in liquidation 
   **Includes announcements of 2,400 cuts on Jan. 16 and 800 layoffs on Jan. 
     13. 
   ***Number of employees affected by plant closures, not all will lose jobs 
   ****Of commercial-airplane staff 
 

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