The N.Y. Council, Navy League of the United States, announces with deep sorrow the passing of its esteemed director.

Then Mr. Stallone talked about showing up at tonight's gala in a roomful of the world's most esteemed directors.

Perhaps the esteemed director was ill.

That was certainly the case with the Juilliard Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Eighth, conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller, the school's esteemed director of orchestral studies.

After the war he began racing classic cars, but was requested by the textile union to "abstain from this competition which could endanger your life and deprive us of our esteemed director."

Yopal barely knows anything of it-I cleared it with the prefect, of course, no thanks to our esteemed director.

The esteemed director is no fool.

And I'm sure the esteemed director will want to file that copy.

"Shut the door," said Allison Parker, the esteemed director of the Welcome Home for Girls, "and turn off the lights."

I am not in good odor with our esteemed director.