51.   Even in high-technology, the favorites tend toward big names like Compaq Computer and segment leaders like Applied Materials, the largest supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

52.   For all their size, industry leaders like John Hancock, Metropolitan and Prudential have as much reason to worry about being acquired as any of their smaller brethren.

53.   For black leaders like Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, the fact that Bush is now president is as real as it is difficult to take.

54.   For decades, foreign corporations and the US government bought and discarded Central American leaders like so many toy soldiers.

55.   For labor leaders like Rivera, the notion of a strong Republican majority is a nightmare.

56.   Foreign soldiers have been used to bolster the Taliban front lines in strategic cities, as well as to provide security for leaders like Mullah Muhammad Omar.

57.   Fortunately, Republican leaders like House Speaker Newt Gingrich are troubled by the indecency standard.

58.   Foreign governments tend to criticize Laos less severely than Myanmar, perhaps because the country does not have an attractive opposition leader like Aung San Suu Kyi.

59.   Glover is considered a first-class human being in the Darren Woodson mold, and also a team leader like Woodson.

60.   Fundamental shifts in society are working in favor of stores like Talbots and against fashion leaders like the Limited, said Walter K. Levy, a retail consultant.