11.   If her nomination is approved, she would be the first woman to head the agency.

12.   Its independence has been questioned, in part because the agency is being headed by Dick Pound, an IOC delegate from Montreal.

13.   Last month, Samaranch was sternly rebuffed by American and European officials in his attempt to head an agency to oversee a worldwide effort to control doping.

14.   Montesinos had headed the agency, which was implicated in numerous cases of extortion, human rights abuses and even killings.

15.   Nicholas Scoppetta, who heads the agency, has defended its actions in one case and criticized it in the other.

16.   Potter, the chief operating officer and a former head of labor relations for the Postal Service, will be the sixth career postal employee to head the agency.

17.   Some critics charge that Bruce Vladeck, a New Yorker who heads the agency that oversees Medicare, put together a sweetheart deal.

18.   The merged agency will be headed principally by executives of Modem Media.

19.   The new agency will be headed by Mariano Herran, a lawyer who replaced Gen. Gutierrez as the head of the now-defunct anti-narcotics agency.

20.   The proposed agency would be headed by a Cabinet-level official who would have to be confirmed by the Senate.