1. I prefer having your accompanying for life-long time to the short-time tenderness.

2. Most manufacturers have had to introduce short-time working.

3. Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced.

4. Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility.

5. Earnings might vary because of piece-work, overtime or short-time working.

6. This has recently reduced short-time working which, for two years, had sapped morale at our factories.