11.   Bernas next took a post doing systems and software development.

12.   After appealing the decision with help from the Norwegian ambassador, he was allowed to take the post if he was not officially listed as music director.

13.   All involved expect him to be confirmed quickly as the head of the CIA, and to take his post next month.

14.   But a similar international force that took up posts in Hebron after a massacre of Palestinians there last February has proved to be basically ineffectual.

15.   But he never took the post because the Democratic-dominated state Senate, depicting him as an extremist, would not confirm the appointment.

16.   But it threw its pieces into battle, taking good posts away from the enemy forces, and held on in a rook-and-pawn endgame.

17.   But on Saturday Kiriyenko said that Chubais could not take that post.

18.   By taking the post, Simpson will face one of the toughest jobs in U.K. industry.

19.   Clinton also announced Friday that he would nominate Charlene Barshefsky, the acting United States trade representative, to take the post full time.

20.   Clinton, for example, had needed to gingerly sound out Chicago lawyer Bill Daley about whether he would take a post other than transportation secretary.