The appointment of Elizabeth Christopherson as executive director of the New Jersey Network received only slight mention in "NJN Girding for a Battle of Survival."

A16 Girding to Fight Smallpox Even as investigator descends on Florida in response to a death from anthrax and a newly discovered second infection, it is smallpox that has many experts losing sleep.

Re: "NJN Girding for Battle of Survival," July 17: We at the New Jersey Network welcome the coverage on "The New Jersey Channel," but the article presented a distorted perspective.

While the article "NJN Girding for a Battle of Survival" (July 17) pays inordinate attention to the conventional bottom line - dollars and cents - those of us committed to nonprofit public broadcasting are concerned primarily with a different sort of bottom line: service to the community.

NEW YORK Girding for Surge in Workfare New York City and State officials are scrambling to prepare for the largest public jobs program since the Depression - in their effort to meet the requirements of the Federal welfare bill passed by Congress this summer.

What has she done for you to gird at her?

But he, too, was girding for the second half of the season.

Many of the working class were girding for such a fight.

The one I love girded it on me with her own hands.

In the morning they got up, girded themselves, and went down.

Only a short time ago, the city had been girding for attack.

"It seems we already have to gird up for battle once more."

In recent weeks, both sides have been girding for battle.

She realized how much he had girded himself for that effort.

But they are girding for battle over the right to direct those changes.

Some of the industry's biggest players have girded for the worst.

Girding himself for that test, the President moved last week to strengthen his national security team.

But it's not clear just how much he has girded himself for all the tasks ahead.

She looks like a woman girding herself for an experience that just might turn unpleasant.

He girded his legs to try to spring to the side, to safety.

Residents in many places girded for a weekend without power.

I never expected to see you here again - and girded like a knight.

So he girded it to his side, and put on the old helmet.

At that very time, poor thing, I was girding up my conscience to make him move on again!

Those are things that I don't have to gird myself up for.

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

I girded myself and went down to the cell where he was confined.

The union, demanding job security and a 4 percent pay raise, is girding for war.

Jenny took a deep breath and seemed to gird herself.

So why is the administration girding up to bomb Iraq and kill thousands of people?