1.  Erazo, who took his position in June after the last executive director resigned, said the departures were routine and not part of a systemic problem.

2.  James P. Grant, the last American director, died in January.

3.  Just as Robert Redford often is considered the last Hollywood leading man, Pollack, his longtime friend, is the last Hollywood director.

4.  Rouzaud is a grandson of Camille Olry-Roederer, the last director of the company to bear the family name.

5.  The CIA badly needs assertive leadership to cement the reforms initiated by John Deutch, the last director of central intelligence.

6.  The deficit developed over the brief tenure of the last executive director, Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.

7.  The last director of central intelligence to serve as a policy maker and Cabinet member was William Casey during the Reagan administration.

8.  The last executive director of the association was Christopher Sutherland, who left to join Zing Systems L.P. in Englewood, Colo.

9.  Unlike the last NIH director, Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, Zerhouni is virtually unknown in the biomedical research community, the chief constituency for NIH grants.

10.  The last director, actor Martin Wuttke, resigned in December because Berlin city authorities could not guarantee long-term financing.