1.   Feminists in the party claim there is a glass ceiling which most women cannot break through to win the most influential posts.

2.   And since his election Bush has rewarded this constituency by appointing Cuban Americans to influential posts.

3.   All GOP chairs in the Senate, including Texans Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison, would lose their influential posts.

4.   Chubais, though, retains the more influential post of first deputy prime minister.

5.   He has held nearly every influential post in the Israeli cabinet during three decades in politics.

6.   However, Budiarto Shambazy, a journalist and political scientist, noted that the political appointees were not for the most part given influential posts.

7.   They will retain influential party posts, but the transition in the government is not helping a speedy negotiation, a Vietnamese official said.

8.   They point to a host of oil, gas and coal industry lobbyists who have been given influential posts at the department.

9.   Claes, who assumed the influential post last month, said negotiations had gone on for years without success while Serb attacks continued.

10.   Jacques Santer was scheduled at midday to become the ninth president of the European Commission, taking over the influential post from French Socialist Jacques Delors.