1.   At Digital Pulp in New York, which specializes in Internet advertising, a new top executive is being hired from a client company.

2.   Beyond his marketing skills, Freston has gained a reputation for hiring creative executives and giving them ample freedom to work.

3.   Credit Suisse First Boston hired three executives for its European syndicated finance team.

4.   He is so convinced that at least one setback in a career is crucial to shaping business judgment that he looks to hire executives who have had similar disappointments.

5.   He, in turn, has hired other executives from Merrill Lynch.

6.   Industries that aggressively hire diverse executives also tend to aggressively pursue new markets, search-firm professionals say.

7.   It is unusual for a Japanese company to hire executives from another company.

8.   More than two dozen account-management, new-business and creative executives have been hired.

9.   Options were of minor concern in the days when corporate directors hired executives by offering them salaries and stock.

10.   Ovitz had worked to hire television executives, including Howard Stringer and Sandy Grushow, to run the venture, called Tele-TV.