51.   He takes over from Jan Ekberg, who filled the top position as an interim measure following the sudden resignation of John L. Zabriskie in January.

52.   He worked his way into top Cabinet positions, becoming the first French-Canadian finance minister.

53.   Her appointment also bucks a recent trend at Delta of filling top positions with outsiders.

54.   His appointment of whites to top positions, including his chief of staff, has drawn whispers of derision from black leaders.

55.   IBM call options dominated the most-active list today, taking four of the top five positions.

56.   If the entire executive board resigns, Nomura will have to look to younger, less experienced managers to fill its top positions.

57.   In an effort to make the administration more reflective of student enrollment, he sought out members of minority groups for top positions.

58.   In August, a search engine company called the Open Text Corp. began selling the top positions on its search-results pages to advertisers.

59.   In earlier qualifying, Mike Skinner and Steve Grissom took the top two pole positions Sunday.

60.   In the end, Newman dropped an earlier offer for a top executive position at Salomon Brothers Inc.