1.   Rick was fired in August after a brief stint with a Portland courier service.

2.   Amelio evidently liked what he saw of Hancock during her brief stint at National Semi, however.

3.   Another brief stint in the make-up chair and then Wendy gives an interview to a reporter from a Miami television station.

4.   Besides brief stints in the Slovak Republic and in the former Soviet Georgia, this was his first long-term mission with the United Nations, the officials said.

5.   Before that, he spent a year at a junior college in Miami after a brief stint in the Marines.

6.   A brief stint in the U.S. Army followed, ending with Mas leaving after it became clear the Kennedy administration had no further plans to invade Cuba.

7.   After a brief stint as an assignment editor he became the first black man hired to write for CBS News.

8.   After a brief stint in nursing school, Ms. McQueen pursued her acting career in earnest, finding that the stage was much more exciting than a hospital.

9.   After a brief stint in the Army, Garcia formed several folk and bluegrass groups known as jug bands.

10.   After brief stints as a broker at several small Manhattan brokerage firms, Payne landed at Traders and Investors Alert.