31.   The Cabinet-level post at the U.N. headquarters in New York has been vacant since Bill Richardson left in September to become energy secretary.

32.   The Chur post has been vacant since Haas in December moved to a newly created post as archbishop of Liechtenstein.

33.   The post had been vacant since then, and the diocese has been run by an interim administrator.

34.   The post has been vacant since the death of Cardinal Pierre Eyt in June.

35.   The post was vacant since early February.

36.   The office has been vacant since July, when Milosevic became president of Yugoslavia, which comprises Serbia and Montenegro.

37.   The position has been vacant since then.

38.   The post has been vacant since June, when city officials fired Amnon Barzel as director after a simmering dispute over who should control the museum.

39.   The post has been vacant since June.

40.   The post has remained vacant since then.