1.   He rose to become chairman of the company.

2.   An actor who rose to become head of the Warner Bros. studio before taking over at CBS, he is popular in Hollywood.

3.   As top management continued to thin, he rose to become president and chief operating officer.

4.   At Chase, she rose to become managing director and then the executive in charge of global private banking by the time Chase merged with J.P. Morgan.

5.   Barbara LaChance rose to become a regional administrator in North Carolina.

6.   Berry joined the production and won other parts, rising to become an assistant to Welles, which turned him away from acting and toward directing.

7.   Both of the Ewings joined the Union army and rose to become generals.

8.   Bradford Morse, a former Republican congressman from Massachusetts who rose to become a top-ranking U.N. official, died Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla.

9.   A dirt-poor Oklahoma farm boy who rose to become a millionaire by bailing out people in need.

10.   A former Goldman trader, Gus Levy, who later rose to become co-chairman of the firm, helped pioneer the practice of block trading.