21.   In the GE vein, Boeing has given its top line managers greater autonomy to succeed or fail.

22.   National City Corp., Cleveland, a diversified financial services company, named Edward B. Reilly senior vice president and corporate business line manager.

23.   Nichols, a line manager, said she believes employers such as Chase have become more conscious about taking better care of their top performers.

24.   Other companies are giving line managers much more leeway in hiring candidates, enabling them to bypass corporate HR staff.

25.   Peter Schein, product line manager for Concentric Network, said FaxStorm lets his company offer something more than simple Internet access.

26.   Significant effort may be required to reorient these professionals toward teaching, counseling and prodding line managers to exercise their talent-management responsibilities.

27.   The line managers, who are often accused of forming a white-collar wall of resistance to change, were most likely to see the connection between people and profits.

28.   It exists to support line managers.

29.   It is with operating heads or line managers that he deals with the most.