51.   In a labor market squeezed tightly by the demands of a robust economy and the Internet, stocks of executive search firms have been spectacular performers of late.

52.   In July, the company acquired an executive search practice and folded it into the services it provides to portfolio companies.

53.   In June, the company said it hired an executive search firm to look for a new chief executive.

54.   It also created an executive search committee.

55.   It has hired Herbert Mines Associates Inc., an executive search firm that specializes in the retail industry, to find a replacement for Lavin.

56.   It uses the Net to find job candidates for executive searches and middle management openings.

57.   James Citrin, managing director of the new global Internet practice at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart, has known Nanula since Harvard Business School.

58.   James Cabrera, vice chairman of the executive search firm Drake Beam Morin Inc., died Tuesday at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn.

59.   Jill Monaghan, of the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates, is more impressed.

60.   Just as they followed Internet stocks to the stratosphere, the stocks of executive search firms also landed hard.