1.  Arbess was formerly European director of the Stratton Group, which also invested throughout Eastern Europe.

2.  As of Sunday, Bernd Neff, the European sales director for Sabotage, had yet to sit down with Japanese retailers.

3.  As the new film by European director Wim Wenders gets under way, the story takes directions that promise something rich, thoughtful, even artistic.

4.  Before Eurotherm, Hultman was European managing director for Fisher Controls Inc., a subsidiary of U.S.-based chemical company Monsanto Co.

5.  Abdelsamad al-Awadi, European marketing director for the Kuwait Petroleum Corp. in London, agreed.

6.  European directors can make a day trip out of a board meeting by hopping on the Concorde, particularly if the company is based in New York.

7.  Even before he started his own line, he was designing film costumes for European directors, including Jean Cocteau.

8.  It was apropos for Mazursky to turn toward Jean Renoir, the European director with whom he had the most in common.

9.  It will be most fully appreciated by video viewers with a taste for the multi-layered facet of filmmaking favored by European directors.

10.  The differences between him and another central European director with a similar childhood are instructive.