Dow Corning Corp. announced today that it will eliminate 800 jobs, or about 8 percent of its 10,000-member global work force, due to the poor economy. It is not known how many jobs will be affected at Dow Corning's corporate headquarters in Bay County or at its mid-Michigan operations, according to Jarrod Erpelding, a Dow Corning spokesman. Dow Corning has about 3,500 employees in Michigan and about 1,300 working at its Williams Township headquarters and factory in Auburn combined. The job cuts will occur during the first half of 2009 across the entire company through a combination of voluntary retirement...