1.   New tests have been introduced for candidates who apply for top council posts in Sefton.

2.   THE search is on for someone to fill a top training post.

3.   Although Gingrich retained the top House post, the attempted coup has exposed his vulnerability.

4.   Among major Swiss financial services firms here, only the Credit Suisse Group now combines both top posts in a single executive, Lukas Muehlemann.

5.   And Hampers, who hinted broadly that he would leave Grace if he was not named to the top posts, was making different, slightly hostile noises Monday.

6.   And it will be no less forceful than its partners in promoting its own people for top international posts.

7.   Another TV effort, to hire NBC executive Jamie Tarses to a top post at ABC, embarrassed ABC executives and turned NBC into an angry enemy.

8.   As a result, Livingston, Largent, and DeLay could end up in control of the top three leadership posts.

9.   At one point, a shareholder proposal that only members of the Hatsopoulos family hold the top post came up for a vote.

10.   At ground zero of the activity is Murphy, a Georgia native who held top posts at The Atlanta Constitution, The San Francisco Examiner and The Baltimore Sun.