1.  Half a dozen good people in top positions can bring about enormous change.

2.  Top positions in the body politic may be held by monarchs, directly or indirectly elected presidents, rotating office-holders, parliamentary committees and collegiate bodies.

3.  Also, former Boston Chicken Inc. executive Bruce Harreld was named as chief of strategy, a top position reporting directly to Gerstner.

4.  Although the school has a predominantly black student body, few blacks are in top administrative positions.

5.  Among the few organizations that have started worrying about how to fill retired Boomer spots, most merely have started developing succession plans for their top positions.

6.  And last October, they say, the agency began doing background checks on all job applicants for top managerial positions.

7.  Armstrong and Balentine are the only two not facing SEC efforts to block them from holding top positions with public companies.

8.  As it has in many other top appointed positions in recent years, race was clearly an issue on many levels in the selection process.

9.  Asked about his place in a future government should Labor win, Beilin said he knew that he is too controversial for top positions.

10.  At the Justice Department, the top two positions are filled by women.