1.   Putnam Investments said the head of its domestic equities group, Peter Carman, resigned to head global asset management at Citicorp.

2.   President Alex Mandl resigned to head Associated Communications LLC, giving up a chance to replace Chairman Robert Allen for a lucrative post at a start-up wireless telecommunications company.

3.   Reitzle is resigning to head Linde, a large German gas and engineering company.

4.   The superintendent of public instruction announced Thursday that she was resigning to head a Washington, D.C.-based school-reform think tank she founded.

5.   Optometrist John Boozman continued a tradition of Republican dominance in winning the congressional seat left vacant when Asa Hutchinson resigned to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.

6.   Arlacchi resigned to head the U.N. drug agency in Vienna.

7.   In Arkansas, voters also nominated candidates to succeed Rep. Asa Hutchinson, who resigned to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.

8.   Saonara replaces Emma Bonino, a Radical party figure who resigned to head the European Union commission on fisheries.

9.   The manager of Web sites fell after its chief executive resigned to head Newell Rubbermaid Inc. and after its shares were downgraded by several analysts.

10.   AT and T president and chief operating officer Alex Mandl resigned to head a small communications firm, the leading US telecommunications company announced Monday.