1.   The post does not require Senate confirmation.

2.   Some posts require specialist knowledge and a relevant degree is essential.

3.   Each post required the same long hours, though, and his school-age children were left alone to run their own apartment-sized kingdom.

4.   Some teachers questioned whether Ms. Feldman could juggle the national job and the New York job, asserting that both posts require full-time attention.

5.   The post of surgeon general requires Senate confirmation.

6.   Yet Mueller, a Republican, has support within both parties, a crucial factor since the post requires confirmation by the Democrat- controlled Senate.

7.   The post requires confirmation by the Senate.

8.   The post requires unanimous support, although some nations are said to be pushing for a two-thirds majority vote to end the stalemate.