11.   It would only be a matter of time, the companies reasoned, before the best and the brightest of their new employees moved up the management ranks.

12.   Its work force was liberally sprinkled with women and minorities, but something was keeping them out of management ranks.

13.   OXFORD SEEKING NEW TOP EXECUTIVES Troubled managed care company Oxford Health Plans announced moves to bolster its management ranks.

14.   Over the past month, BCE has attracted a lot of attention for an overhaul of its senior management ranks.

15.   Pearson becomes the first big British company with two women executives among its top management ranks.

16.   Prolonged unpaid overtime also sends emotional ripples outside management ranks.

17.   Rather, the layoffs are expected to be concentrated in management ranks.

18.   Scannell still has his critics within management ranks, though they understandably decline to speak for attribution.

19.   She has culled the management ranks and encouraged rank-and-file employees to send her e-mail messages.

20.   State Street Corp. said it named Dale Carleton and Nicholas Lopardo as vice chairmen, among several changes the securities processor made in its management ranks.