To the Editor: The byzantine process for election of the United Nations Secretary General described in "Ready.

Depending on where you enter the byzantine process, if you are denied, up to four appeals are possible.

Getting Ershad's approval, like everything here, is always a byzantine process: permission for lyrics, say, may be granted by someone in one office, only to be denied by someone in another.

Executives acknowledge the Web's potential for simplifying the byzantine process of finding insurance quotes and applying for coverage, but they also note the downsides.

Pdvsa (pronounced peh-deh-VEH-sah), which accounts for 73 percent of the country's export earnings, was taken over last year by Chávez loyalists, who remain baffled by its byzantine processes.

Cynicism has reached new lows if this byzantine process qualifies as "priceless" and the optimal means to avoid duplication.

The angry words focused attention on the byzantine process of allocating money in the budget each year for the Council's 51 members to use in their districts.

Instead we force them to navigate a byzantine process that now takes a year and a half or longer.

This episodic sampler of a show is a toast to the Bronx Museum's annual 12-week seminar to coach emerging artists in the byzantine process of establishing their careers.

True, economics laureates receive the same $1 million honorarium as laureates in other fields, and they are selected by the same secretive, byzantine process.