111.   Chief among the direct vendors is Round Rock-based Dell Computer.

112.   Chief among the losers were funds that invest in financial services like banking, insurance and brokerage firms.

113.   Chief among the new architects of an African renaissance is Thabo Mbeki, the new president of South Africa.

114.   Chief among the other considerations is a crisis in values, brought about by the abrupt marriage of two very different worlds.

115.   Chief among them are organizational issues.

116.   Chief among them is concern about the quality of calls the engines have responded to.

117.   Chief among them is economics.

118.   Chief among them is Germany.

119.   Chief among them is Subaru, which years ago found its nitch in producing very competent all-wheel-drive cars throughout its lineup.

120.   Chief among them is the creation of a preserve rather than a national park in the East Mojave so that hunting may continue there.