1.   Bao was an adviser and speechwriter for Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief before the crackdown.

2.   Clancy was the son of a firefighter, a man who rose to the rank of deputy chief before retiring.

3.   Inkatha countered that the Congress had misbehaved because it had failed to get permission from local chiefs before scheduling the rallies in their territory.

4.   The IRS issued interim rules requiring that agents get approval from their regional collection division chief before seizing property.

5.   President Chandrika Kumaratunga met with her military chiefs before convening an emergency meeting of her Cabinet ministers.

6.   Philippine laws require the approval of the revenue chief before any tax suit can be filed in court.

7.   APTV has pictures and soundbites of the rebel chief just before he departed for peace talks in South Africa.

8.   But he did little more than name a new army chief before heading back to France.

9.   But he did little more than name a new army chief before quietly heading back to France.

10.   But the president, who came home to rally the troops, did little more than change the army chief before heading back to France.