1.   At colleges across the country, career-services offices fashioned makeshift interview booths to accommodate the companies on a hiring binge.

2.   After expensive hiring binges, each of these firms has pulled back from Wall Street.

3.   But such job losses have been partly offset by a hiring binge at BofA Securities.

4.   But the Puget Sound area should not expect Boeing to go on a hiring binge, she said.

5.   Deutsche Morgan Grenfell has begun to reap the fruits of its hiring binge, too.

6.   --Gretchen Kreske, manager of strategic information at Manpower Inc., a Milwaukee-based personnel-placement and training company, as companies continue a hiring binge.

7.   Meantime, the Standard, which is looking mighty fat and healthy, went on a hiring binge.

8.   Recruiting efforts in Europe are starting to slow, and American companies seem in no rush to return to a hiring binge.

9.   Shortly after the purchase, it got city tax breaks to construct a new hangar and went on a hiring binge.

10.   The firm has been on a hiring binge over the last five years, expanding its banking staff almost fourfold.