21.  Another independent agency is disappearing inside a corporate maw, this time a small, creatively focused shop whose principals are taking powerful senior positions with the acquirer.

22.  Another problem altogether is discrimination even against legal Christians, who usually cannot hold senior positions in government or the vast state-run economy.

23.  As an engineer, he would be adept at quantitative trading techniques, and GE was pressing Kidder managers to bring more members of minorities into senior positions.

24.  At one point, he offended female colleagues by thoughtlessly reaching outside Schwab to fill new senior positions with only men.

25.  Before his present position, Hall held the senior enlisted position as command sergeant major of the U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.

26.  Barry Bryant, a retailing analyst at Ladenburg, Thalmann, questioned why Kmart would hire so many outsiders to senior positions if it intended to replace Antonini.

27.  Beginning as a clerk, he rose to a senior position in an investment company whose holdings included a Spanish railway.

28.  Both he and Mordechai denied that any deal between them had been struck, but it is probable that Mordechai would join his Cabinet in a senior position.

29.  A bank spokesman said Fair will be offered another senior position.

30.  After receiving the report, the State Department said it would place higher priority on the hiring of Americans, particularly in senior positions.