31.  Open positions of short sales on the Nasdaq stock market rose slightly in the most recent month, according to figures released Tuesday.

32.  Open positions of short sales rose to record levels in the most recent month, the New York Stock Exchange said Monday.

33.  Open positions, like those reported Friday, are shares borrowed and sold, but not yet covered by repurchase.

34.  Over a third of the job cuts have come from not filling open positions and by eliminating contract employees.

35.  Q. I told my manager that I was interested in applying for a particular open position in our department.

36.  Roughly half of ads from Thai and Japanese companies sought men or women only for their open positions.

37.  Service was restored on Tuesday morning after workers disabled the faulty switch, wedging it with spikes into an open position, Lebow said.

38.  Startups go out of business and lay off dozens of workers weekly, but big firms like Cisco and Intel are still advertising hundreds of open positions.

39.  The number of open positions of short sales rose to another record on the New York Stock Exchange last month, the exchange said Thursday.

40.  Traders often buy or sell futures contracts to offset open positions to limit their exposure to volatile price swings in the wake of government projections.