1.  As a consequence, the agency had sometimes hired agents "blindly, without thorough vetting and established procedures for accountability," Deutch said.

2.  Arthur Bright, a Florida-based job training consultant, was hired to implement the program.

3.  Delta Air Lines, for example, hired John K. Lauber in January for a new position of vice president for corporate safety and compliance.

4.  Delta hired former Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., and Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican Party, among others, to push New York.

5.  Designer Doug Hiemstra was hired in March 1996, by CardioThoracic Systems in Cupertino to help convince investment bankers to take the company public.

6.  Department stores hired a lot of extra holiday help.

7.  Determined to avoid this situation, the Symphony hired an independent acoustician (BC-CHICAGO-SYMPHONY-2NDTAKE-NYT)

8.  Deutsche Morgan Grenfell also hired bankers, traders and analysts from SBC Warburg, Bankers Trust New York Corp. and J.P. Morgan.

9.  Deutsche Morgan Grenfell hired Walter Travalja from CS First Boston Inc. as a director and head of repo trading.

10.  Dallas hired Chicago assistant Jim Cleamons last week as head coach.