1.  And Intel officials say that because the company hires so many foreign workers for technical positions it often cannot perform extensive background checks.

2.  At CNN, technical positions related to Web sites are likely to take a hit, Wolzien said.

3.  But skilled immigrants were important to filling labor needs that are still unmet in highly technical positions.

4.  He said high school graduates in Singapore, for example, have more math and science skills needed for a technical entry-level position than their American counterparts.

5.  Kay said Smith believes that U.S. businesses should retrain U.S. workers instead of hiring foreign workers for technical positions.

6.  One of the offers I got was a technical writing position, which paid double the newspaper salary.

7.  Over and over, company executives say that the pool of African Americans for technical positions and mid- and senior-level management jobs is small.

8.  U.S. companies, especially those in the high-tech industry, have turned increasingly to overseas workers in recent years to fill skilled technical positions.

9.  Dompnier said Disneyland was offering more training and higher-paying stage or technical positions to qualifying employees.

10.  Its sharp decline triggered technical position adjustments in dollar-yen transactions, traders said.