1.   Ng Cheng Kiat, hitherto Minister for Housing and Local Government, was appointed Minister of Health, vacant since the death of Chan Siang Sun in March.

2.   The office had been vacant since December when Bush had appointed the incumbent Transportation Secretary, Samuel Skinner, as his Chief of Staff.

3.   The post had been vacant since February.

4.   International Business Machines Corp. named Samuel Palmisano to lead its personal-computer unit, a position that was vacant since September.

5.   It has been vacant since last year when Mobil consolidated research in other facilities.

6.   One seat on the board has been vacant since the retirement last spring of John LaWare, a New England banker.

7.   Others say the administration has had trouble filling the post, which has been vacant since January.

8.   That post had been vacant since Orfuss left to join Lowe Direct in September.

9.   The CFO spot at Apple has been vacant since October when Joseph Graziano was forced out in a power struggle with Spindler.

10.   The developers have proposed turning the department store, which has been vacant since November, into an entertainment and retail complex.