41.   Ancier had been negotiating a new contract with the top WB executive, Jamie Kellner, over the last few months, but they could not reach an agreement.

42.   And a top Dresdner executive said on Wednesday that scores of others were planning to defect.

43.   And a case in Hungary drew the attention of the top executive of International American Products Ltd., a contracting company based in Columbia, S.C.

44.   An investigating magistrate, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez, has so far placed top executives from eight French banks under investigation for blanchiment aggrave, serious money-laundering.

45.   And both are breaking a long tradition of promoting top executives from inside the tradition-bound company.

46.   And is anyone surprised that companies are having trouble retaining top executives who have all the money they could ever need.

47.   And he said that neither man considered the possibility that questions of propriety might be raised about a senator taking lodging with a top executive of a lobbying firm.

48.   And no one knows this better than Bay Area executive recruiters who are paid big bucks themselves to locate and lure savvy CEOs and other top executives.

49.   And it recently reshuffled management, including putting consumer banking operations under top BayBanks executives.

50.   And many companies that place consultants for a specific industry sometimes provide top executives on a temporary basis.