1.  Any school that hires Welsh must also pay a buyout fee, worth a reported $100,000.

2.  Denny Schuler was hired as offensive coordinator and immediately scrapped Pettibone's wishbone offense for a more pass-oriented version of the option.

3.  Dent was traded to the Rangers in 1983 and Zimmer had been hired by the Yankees as a coach.

4.  Cuban said he also won't consider hiring another IU alumni, Quinn Buckner, as the Mavericks coach.

5.  Cuba's strict employment laws allow the government's employment authority to determine who a company can hire.

6.  Der Kapitan, too, is furious: he intends to marry his daughter to Der Admiral, and has already hired the caterers.

7.  Deregulation of many industries, from trucking to telecommunications, has led to new patterns of competition in which some companies must shed workers while competitors are hiring.

8.  DeLay and other Republicans said the White House has hired a detective company to dig into the private lives of GOP members and then pass it along to reporters.

9.  Derrike Cope was hired to drive the car for 1997, and Ryan Pemberton came on as crew chief.

10.  Denver-based Berger said it hired veteran stock-picker Patrick Adams from Zurich Kemper Investments Inc. in Chicago as new manager of the Berger 100 Fund.