Mr. Bentsen reached outside the beleaguered agency for new leadership, naming John Magaw as acting director.

The budget for this beleaguered, underfinanced agency will need to be sharply increased.

And that about sums up the circumstances of the beleaguered agency, whose problems and public image are as bad as they have ever been.

There still seemed to be a gap between the Mayor and the beleaguered agency, in regard to their views of how soon the bridge's rotting steel beams could be shored up.

A former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration describes his tenure at the beleaguered agency in the 1990's and his struggle to take on the tobacco industry.

The executive director of the New York City Emergency Medical Service, James Kerr, resigned yesterday, saying he could no longer effectively manage the beleaguered agency.

He revitalized a beleaguered agency that had become mired in bureaucratic disarray.

That's why he has convened 30 representatives of arts institutions and the public to debate the future of the beleaguered agency.

This will hardly solve all of the city's child welfare problems, but it goes a long way toward making a beleaguered agency more efficient and responsive.

Its preparation and previous drafts have provoked strong emotions at the beleaguered agency, which has borne the brunt of public criticism in a series of major studies of intelligence failures.