1.   Desperate and disenchanted, she flees to Tulsa where she works as a department store elevator operator.

2.   He worked only part-time, an elevator operator, because the country was awash in college graduates.

3.   The elevator operators know his habits and are holding back the door of a car.

4.   An elevator operator gleefully reminded an American reporter Monday that despite the war and sanctions, Saddam outlasted Bush.

5.   And there was Shrimatti Ramsaroop, the widow of an elevator operator at the World Trade Center named Vishnoo Ramsaroop.

6.   At the local, which represents janitors, doormen and elevator operators, he led two citywide strikes of apartment workers.

7.   At party headquarters here, an elderly elevator operator controls access and the front door is often barred with a wooden paddle.

8.   A lifelong Manhattan resident, McDonnell was the son of an elevator operator.

9.   A marriage to an elevator operator ended in divorce.

10.   But the best job the Times could offer him, says his daughter, was as a freight elevator operator.