21.   Amid the difficulties, Andersen has yet to select a replacement for Joseph Berardino, chief executive of Andersen Worldwide, who announced his resignation on Tuesday night.

22.   Amazon is scheduled to report its second-quarter results after the close on Wednesday, which may have pushed Amazon to announce the resignation Tuesday.

23.   An hour before the game, Bob Gainey announced his resignation as head coach, so Stars assistants Rick Wilson and Doug Jarvis ran the bench last night.

24.   And in what Bergstrom called an unrelated move, the company Thursday announced the resignation of a top official at the Everett plant.

25.   And the company announced the resignation of William Hussey, a Columbia division president in Tampa, Fla., who supervised three managers indicted in a Medicare overbilling probe.

26.   And when Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin announced his resignation last week, it was a reminder that in matters economic, personalities and the confidence they inspire still matter.

27.   And there was a general loss of confidence in the president, Benno Schmidt Jr., who announced his resignation less than a month later.

28.   And Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who announced his resignation Wednesday, has joined Greenspan in the pantheon of Money Gods.

29.   Announcing his resignation from the Senate this spring, Dole gave what has been described as one of the most eloquent speeches of his career.

30.   And when Mr. Dole announced his resignation from the Senate last month, he stressed how difficult his own rise to prominence had been.