41.   Executive search firms also harbor reservations.

42.   Executive search firms hardly existed years ago.

43.   Fluor said it has hired an executive search firm to seek candidates to replace McCraw.

44.   Gene Manheim, a partner at New York executive search firm Herbert Mines Associates, agrees.

45.   Formally, the bank says its board is considering internal and external candidates for chairman, but it has not hired an search firm to look for outsiders.

46.   Gillis said Rice has never used a search firm.

47.   Hatchell reportedly has been prominently recommended to the executive search firm of SpencerStuart.

48.   He is the chief executive of the Whitney Group, a Wall Street recruiting and search firm, and Lazaro is vice chairman.

49.   He tells us about a high-flying executive search firm where everyone is paid on the basis of overall, not individual, performance.

50.   He was a bond salesman in New York for a while and worked for an executive search firm in Charlotte, N.C.