1.   Although all oaks are susceptible to the disease, red oaks are especially vulnerable, said Ed Barron, head of the resource department for the state forest service.

2.   But the state resources department contended that BP had difficulty even where there were trace amounts of ice in the water, based on what its monitors had witnessed.

3.   Calls would come in from gay or lesbianemployees who had been harassed, even physically threatened, and wanted their human resource departments to take some action.

4.   Consider Connie Richardson, administrative manager of the Johnson County human resource department.

5.   Foundation Technologies of Waltham, a company that develops Internet software for human resource departments, ran into just that problem last fall.

6.   If an employee believes he has been discriminated against at work, he typically lodges a complaint with the human resource department or affirmative action office.

7.   Most companies with human resource departments try to verify resume claims, but assessing the accreditation of foreign universities is difficult.

8.   Once the layoff list is drawn up, the human resource department is brought in.

9.   That may mean keeping careful records of any employee who comes to the human resource department to report a lewd remark or inappropriate behavior by a coworker or boss.

10.   The researchers expect that finance and treasury departments will choose fund managers for retirement plans rather than human resource departments, which make the decisions today.