As credit is priced more realistically, companies will desert traditional bankers for the capital markets and jettison their bank stocks.

This week, the company jettisoned 32 stores - more than one-third of its 86 - to concentrate on locations where customers will get the message: never-ending sales events.

But it was generally assumed that the company would keep the Napa Valley property and jettison the big Woodbridge winery in the Central Valley.

For one thing, he suggested that the company jettison the America Online unit, which is fighting to hold low-speed subscribers and compete with new high-speed Internet rivals.

For instance, he said, the company jettisoned its "virtual dressing room," which allowed users to mix and match clothing and colors because it was too slow and unreliable.

In their efforts at greater efficiency, companies have jettisoned layers of middle management, reduced the number of production workers and cut down the time it takes to bring new products to market.

These may seem like the kinds of services a company would jettison to cut costs, but that apparently is not happening.

An additional 250 employees will be moving from Atlanta to Nabisco offices in northern New Jersey, where the company is jettisoning one of its several buildings.

The announcement comes seven months after the company jettisoned its troubled financial services unit, selling it to Bridge Information Systems Inc. for $510 million, a loss of $1 billion.

And the company will jettison a European business set up to convert contaminated petroleum into usable oil products.