21.   Before accepting a job, determine the dollar value of every benefit being offered.

22.   Before accepting the job at Rhode Island, she held faculty positions at Rutgers University, Emory University and the University of Washington in Seattle, among other institutions.

23.   Bird said he talked to Magic Johnson, his old Los Angeles Lakers nemesis, a month before he decided to accept the job.

24.   Both men have been offered and accepted the jobs, the official said.

25.   A popular tool is the sign-on bonus, given when a nurse accepts a job.

26.   A year earlier, her husband, a businessman, had accepted a job in Boston, the mecca of sculling.

27.   A strange tableau, vaguely reminiscent of Jimmy Johnson, Pat Riley, Bill Parcells and Mike Fratello sticking around their TV jobs after accepting coaching jobs.

28.   A stumbling block to Hamilton accepting the job could be his buyout.

29.   Accepting the job on these terms was hardly an act of independence.

30.   Adkins said Tuesday that he is close to accepting a job.