11.   At a news conference Monday, Giuliani announced the appointment of Joel A. Miele Sr. to run the department.

12.   Assistant athletic director Larry Naifeh, who has been running the department on an interim basis, becomes executive associate athletic director.

13.   At this point, your job is to run your department as effectively and productively as possible.

14.   Athletic directors, awash in television revenues from football and basketball programs and generous alumni donations, are increasingly running their departments as independent fiefs.

15.   Babbitt can authorize as many acting deputy assistants as he sees fit to effectively run his department.

16.   After talking to the people in Purchasing and to our suppliers, we came up with a completely new way to run this department.

17.   Businessman Steve Soboroff, for instance, indicated he would give the chief six months to abide by his desires on how the department should be run.

18.   But he says there will be no mistaking who is running the athletic department.

19.   By law, the undersheriff runs the department when the sheriff is not available.

20.   Conventional wisdom used to be that running the department was a job for an engineer.