31.  He had a reputation for toughness at his previous job as president and chief executive officer of GE Transportation Systems in Erie, Pa., which makes locomotives.

32.  He recalls the time at a previous job that he evicted a woman and her children from a mobile home after her husband got killed by a drunk driver.

33.  He said the employees in the newly defined jobs are a better fit than they were in their previous jobs.

34.  He now asks if you make more or less than you did in a previous job.

35.  Her husband Jim quit his previous job to work with her, and they employ eight full- and part-time workers.

36.  Her white boss in a previous job never got those looks, she said.

37.  His previous job was as chief executive of the unit he recently sold to NTL, Cable and Wireless Communications PLC.

38.  His previous jobs at Turner, where he was also a director, included executive vice president of cable network and director of sales promotion for TBS ad sales.

39.  His previous jobs with the automobile-maker have included chief financial officer, president of North American automotive operations, and president.

40.  I currently am a dues-paying member of the Communications Workers of America and have been a unionized employee at two previous jobs.