41.   Owada envisioned Japan as one qualified candidate.

42.   Owners and general managers have often said that teams cannot find qualified candidates, which has angered black assistants.

43.   Prosecutors have said that they expect the president will testify in the case that he appointed Branscum and Hill because they were the most qualified candidates for their jobs.

44.   Republican New Yorkers may wish that they, too, had the opportunity to vote in a closely contested primary featuring several qualified candidates.

45.   Sparks said the party appears ready to back Bush, even if he thinks Dole, Steve Forbes or McCain may be qualified candidates with good ideas.

46.   Something is blocking their further advance up the ladder, and it is not just a lack of qualified candidates moving through the pipeline.

47.   The board knows what a difficult search is like since it had problems finding a qualified candidate before Ryan was chosen.

48.   The commissions would submit the names of several qualified candidates to elected officials, who would make the final choice.

49.   The job is one of the toughest, and least attractive, in law enforcement, making it that much harder, officials say, to recruit qualified candidates.

50.   The Mariners take a good deal of counsel from commissioner Bud Selig, and baseball has addressed the need to open doors for all qualified candidates.