1.   And an important position at the parent agency, the job of assistant secretary for health, is also vacant.

2.   About a half-dozen of those signing the letter are former employees of the weather service or its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

3.   But last week the Transportation Department, its parent agency, proposed phasing out the limits over five years.

4.   He returned to the Treasury and served with the Economic Cooperation Administration, the parent agency of the Marshall Plan.

5.   No one from the Metropolitan Transporation Authority, parent agency of the Transit Authority, could be reached Sunday night for comment.

6.   No official of the IRS or its parent agency, the Justice Department, would speak on the record about Amcor for this article.

7.   NOAA, part of the Commerce Department, is the parent agency of the National Weather Service, and its site is a favorite among meteorologists and weather fanatics.

8.   Smith and Tate avoided specific answers to whether the Northwest-oriented programs would survive the demise of their parent cabinet agencies.

9.   The Border Patrol and its parent agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, are part of the U.S. Justice Department.

10.   The bureau and its parent agency, the Justice Department, still maintain that those canisters were fired several hours before the conflagration and did not cause it.