1.   American investigators suspect that Ahmad might be an alias for Shaykh Saiid, a top associate of Osama bin Laden.

2.   First union chief Donald Fehr and his top associate, Gene Orza, removed themselves in favor of a secondary committee.

3.   He also says that Mohammed Atef, a top associate of Osama bin Laden, might have been killed in a recent air strike.

4.   He also says that Mohammed Atef, a top associate of Osama bin Laden, might have been killed in a recent U.S. air strike.

5.   In scaling back its television operations, the company kept the chief operating officer, Eric Tannenbaum, and several top associates.

6.   Last year, HBOC co-chief executives Albert Bergonzi and Jay Gilbertson were indicted along with a top sales associate.

7.   The Boston College head coach and his top associate have a different agenda than they had a year ago.

8.   The original purpose of the Independent Counsel Act was to deal with allegations that a president or his top associates were abusing their constitutional power in office.

9.   A top associate of former President Slobodan Milosevic refused to surrender to police Wednesday, defying Serbian plans to deliver top suspects to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

10.   Among those who would have been on the list was Vlajko Stojiljkovic, a former Serbian interior minister and a top associate of Slobodan Milosevic.