1.   Code language for a prominent leader bringing a business through a difficult period and offering a better long-term contract to employees.

2.   Trade unions also accused state security forces of involvement in the assassination of prominent union leaders.

3.   Both have been courting prominent black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who remains uncommitted.

4.   A prominent Muslim leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, could drop his own candidacy, which seems unlikely to succeed.

5.   A prominent South Korean religious leader appears to have defected to North Korea, sparking a new political battle between rival political parties in the South.

6.   Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the most prominent leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, demanded the release of the detainees.

7.   About a dozen supporters, including two prominent religious leaders in Syracuse, gathered in the chill of the early morning to see Ms. Saumier back to work.

8.   But the local branches of the NAACP and the Urban League supported the measure, along with several other prominent black leaders.

9.   But some prominent Jewish leaders are beginning to question whether they, like their Catholic counterparts, need to overhaul the way they teach their children.

10.   But the support is by no means unanimous, and several prominent anti-abortion leaders and others in the movement have broken from the majority to endorse McCain.