91.   Silber has not yet said when he will step down to allow Westling, his chief deputy and confidante, to assume the top post.

92.   Simultaneously, the percentage of women in top ministerial posts plummeted.

93.   Stock exchange president Eduardo de los Angeles is the leading candidate to take over the top SEC post, Azanza said.

94.   Telecommunications Minister Francois Fillon has been ambivalent on reforms and has removed first Marcel Roulet and then Francois Henrot from the top post at the company.

95.   The Afrikaner and former theoretician of the National Party, Roelf Meyer, declined to run for the top post and became deputy.

96.   The board saw three candidates last week but voted unanimously to offer the top post to Clarson based on his communications and marketing expertise.

97.   The Clinton administration is pledged to give qualified women equal consideration with men for appointment to top posts -- even the plums.

98.   The federal departments headed by Bush cabinet members still have robust Web sites, because much of their work goes on regardless of who fills the top posts.

99.   The conviction disqualifies him from top posts in government but he could be allowed to remain in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.

100.   The failure to fill the top post had been threatening the smooth functioning of the Geneva-based trade group.