11.   Companies that dawdle in hiring promising candidates may lose them to the competition, but Margie Mosher does not care.

12.   Employers also juggle promising candidates, keeping backup choices waiting in the wings in case an offer to their top choice falls through.

13.   Experience has shown that many promising candidates unexpectedly fall by the wayside during the lengthy series of animal and human tests needed to meet federal licensing requirements.

14.   Following are some strategies that management experts suggest for getting your name among the most promising candidates.

15.   Ford is the most promising candidate ever to challenge Towns.

16.   Numerous approaches are being studied and all are yielding promising candidate vaccines.

17.   Obasanjo seemed the most promising candidate to lead a national recovery.

18.   Now, however, scientists at the National Cancer Institute say they have a promising candidate, an aspirinlike drug that is commonly used to treat arthritis pain.

19.   Promising candidates have been approached, sources say, but the Department had not been able to persuade any of them to take the job.

20.   Pyranosyl-RNA and peptide nucleic acid may be promising candidates, but no one yet knows if their spontaneous formation is any more plausible than that of RNA.