She was named circulation financial budget manager in 1994 and financial planning manager for circulation and marketing in 1996.

He was assigned as financial planning manager, and his influence grew quickly.

"It's hard to imagine 5,000 college students without the transit piece," said Brian Shetterly, Bend's interim planning manager.

Army buddies landed him at Pacific Bell in San Francisco, where he climbed from customer service to strategic planning manager.

"It's either concentrated in aquatic life or in sediment," said John T. Hudak, the environmental planning manager for the water authority.

Ms. Abernathy, 43, joined the Times Company as a corporate planning manager in 1986.

Meanwhile, production planning manager, has arrived from Key Street.

The directors of the seven remaining companies agreed to interviews of their corporate planning managers or themselves.

"If we have an opportunity, we will go back," said Kwon Sung Yong, the company's planning manager.

"There is no step back," Juan Fernandez, a former financial planning manager at the oil company, said in a nationally televised news conference this evening.