The employment rolls are still smaller, by 2.4 million jobs, than they were at the recession's start in March 2001.

Back then, management was satisfied as long as the employment rolls and patent counts stayed high.

Across the country, employment rolls fell 0.2 percent last year, but some areas managed to do well.

The economy has added an average 245,000 net new jobs a month this year to the national employment rolls.

But as the employment rolls grew through the flush 1980's, so did the seeds of fiscal undoing in the 1990's.

Mostly because of layoffs, jobs disappeared each month from July through April, with the employment rolls finally starting to grow in May.

In the last 10 years the track has cut its employment rolls 20 percent, to 1,400.

By September 1987, Eastern's employment rolls had been reduced by 4,000 to 39,000 people.

To give her instructional duties, to pay her any credit at all, she has to go on the employment rolls.

Although the international prestige of the world body cannot be measured, its employment rolls can.