The Westchester market is coping with reduction in demand, accelerated corporate cost-cutting and general business uncertainty.

The central bank said low interest rates, the weaker yen - which increases exporters' overseas income - and corporate cost-cutting were supporting growth.

These days, those spendthrift executives have vanished, thanks to corporate cost-cutting and the complications of travel after the terrorist attacks last year.

IN the face of corporate cost-cutting, what is happening to that rite of spring, the company outing?

With each new month of layoffs and other corporate cost-cutting, however, the exceptions begin to look more like a rule.

In particular, he looks at whether earnings growth stems from rising revenues or corporate cost-cutting.

To the Editor: The theory that corporate cost-cutting is bad for America is wrong.

But Burd soon realized that corporate cost-cutting had its limits.

The animosity against older workers, if it was there, may be hard to find under all the layers of corporate cost-cutting and business strategizing.

Nearly two months ago, she was warned that her department was likely to be closed as part of corporate cost-cutting.