1.   BT is seeking successors for its chief executive, Peter Bonfield, and Philip Hampton, the finance director, who will leave the company next year.

2.   Ms. Sneed said that it was premature to discuss whether Wells Rich would seek a successor to Ms. Thaler.

3.   Nora Slattery, a spokeswoman at Ogilvy in New York, said Thursday that the agency was seeking a successor to Reid.

4.   Stanley Works said Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Ayers will retire next year and that it will seek a successor from outside the company.

5.   Still, the CVG allowed Placer to seek a successor.

6.   The committee was formed to seek successors for both Stamas and for H. Frederick Krimendahl II, who resigned as president when Stamas resigned.

7.   The Clinton administration is still seeking a successor.

8.   Managing director Ken Friar said the club was seeking a successor to JVC and said there would be no shortage of candidates although he declined to name them.

9.   But she agreed to stay on until the end of September as member governments sought a successor.

10.   The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation began consultations at the weekend to seek a successor to Claes but there is no clear favourite among the candidates.