51.  Because Gingrich is leaving and DeLay and Armey are prominent partisans, their colleagues did not ask them to seek the top job.

52.  Before he got the top job at BofA, Coulter had little experience as a consumer banking manager.

53.  Before taking over the top job at McDonnell Douglas, Stonecipher was a leading executive at General Electric and later was credited with helping save Sundstrand.

54.  Because Allen held all the top jobs, there was no obvious successor.

55.  Bernard Attali and Roberto Schisano had to leave the top jobs at Air France and Alitalia, respectively, after failing to win agreement on how to reduce costs.

56.  Bill Campbell, the former Ivy League football coach turned chief executive, will go out on a winning note when he relinquishes the top job at Intuit Inc.

57.  Blinder was approached to head the CEA after other top economic jobs in the administration -- including the appointment of Sperling to succeed Tyson -- were filled.

58.  Both teams are coached by men who served many years as assistants before taking over the top jobs.

59.  Both would be in line for top jobs in a Gore administration.

60.  Boyd, who will become the first black to hold one of the newspaper top two editing jobs, said he was both honored and overjoyed.