41.   Chairman and chief executive David I. Beatson resigned to become head of a new electronic commerce venture.

42.   DiFrancesco was sworn in as acting governor last month when Whitman resigned to become administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

43.   Farley succeeds Mike Dunbar, who resigned to become an assistant at Northwestern.

44.   John Hamre, the deputy secretary of defense, is resigning to become head of a major Washington-based think tank, a senior defense official said today.

45.   John Hamre, the deputy secretary of defense, is resigning to become head of a major Washington-based think tank, Defense Secretary William Cohen announced today.

46.   Kinnock resigned to become a European Union commissioner, and Labor candidate Don Touhig was strongly favored to hold the seat for the party.

47.   Megat Junid replaced Abu Hassan Omar, who resigned to become chief minister of Selangor state.

48.   Mrs. Robinson replaces the first U.N. rights commissioner, Jose Ayala Lasso, who resigned to become foreign minister of Ecuador.

49.   One of them had resigned to become an entrepreneur.

50.   She replaces Todd Corman, who resigned to become an Oregon State assistant.