The number of employees has been cut from 13, 000 in 1993 to 9, 500 today.

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Costs have indeed yielded to the knife, as the number of employees has been cut by a quarter.

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This could be used as a transition over to a purely streaming model, move customers up to a higher price point, and allow the company to eliminate costly warehouses and cut down greatly on number of employees.

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America cut its habit by about a quarter between 2006 and 2010, according to the UN, and the number of employees failing workplace cocaine tests fell by two-thirds.

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