1.  Because party rules stipulate that the next chairman must come from the northern part of the state, Firestone could not run for chairman this time.

2.  Blinder reportedly had hoped to become the next Fed chairman.

3.  -- With Republicans controlling the House, Rep. Joseph McDade is telling people around Scranton that he will be the next chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee.

4.  But Rumsfeld warned against any attempt to parse his stated criteria to guess the next chairman.

5.  But who the next GE chairman will be is a matter of speculation.

6.  But who the next chairman will be is a matter of speculation.

7.  Chase Manhattan Corp. reorganized its high-ranking management, identifying a group of executives from which the largest U.S. bank is expected to choose its next chairman.

8.  During his first term as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, his boss, Gen. John Shalikashvili, recommended him as the next chairman.

9.  Either way, the next chairman will have to stir things up.

10.  Helms, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has no problem with that.