21.   During the announcement last week, Gumbel dismissed any notion that he failed in prime time and that his new assignment is something of a comedown.

22.   Egan immediately sought to convey a sense of humility regarding his new assignment, while reaching out to his future flock.

23.   En route to the new assignment, three Spanish-speaking men take over the aircraft and tell the pilot to fly them to the Azores.

24.   Even so, officials anticipate no new assignments for Mrs. Clinton, whose forays into policy-making have come to grief in the past.

25.   For Sims and Golden the new assignments bring professional challenges.

26.   For the lucky, the staff cuts have meant new assignments to unfamiliar tasks and the gnawing tension that their job security is tenuous.

27.   He assumes duties from David Kiley, vice president, who continues at Lowe working on new assignments.

28.   Has the stress of his new assignment prompted him to act on his fantasies for the first time, or has he been sneaking out all along?

29.   He did not relish his new assignment.

30.   He had met with the pope two days before the new assignment was given him.