1.   And Cheney has come under fire for a massive retirement package he received from Halliburton, the oil company he ran before quitting to join the ticket.

2.   A second key executive from privately owned Australian phone company Optus Communications Ltd. has quit to join newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd.

3.   After briefly studying at New York University, he quit to join the circus with his childhood friend Nick Cuccia.

4.   But Charest stunned Conservatives in April by quitting to join the Liberals in a high-risk effort to unseat separatist Lucien Bouchard as premier of Quebec.

5.   Canepa quit to join Sun Microsystems Inc. last week.

6.   He attended Humboldt State University of California, studying forestry, then quit to join the Army, hoping to qualify for Special Forces.

7.   He quit to join rival Global One, a joint venture between France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom AG and Sprint Corp.

8.   Lindsey quit to join the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

9.   Ms. Brillstein quit to join International Creative Management.

10.   She had to quit to join football.