Central Brooklyn was billed $3,000 a week to pay for a Boston-based consultant and would pay him more than $80,000.

But set aside statistics and passions for a moment to prevent "jumping off a bridge again," warns Jeffrey D. Redmond, president of New Directions, a Boston-based consultant specializing in career transitions.

Jon Alper, a Boston-based independent consultant for various media production interests, suggested he would prefer that his Mac Pros were pried from his cold, dead hands.

Former Officer Cooperates Olivier Roux, a former Guinness financial chief on loan from Boston-based Bain & Company, the management consultants, has cooperated with investigators.

The program, implemented by the Boston-based consultants Work-Family Directions, has been in place in New Jersey this school year.

Louis Harvey, president of Dalbar Financial Services, a Boston-based consultant to mutual funds, said there were about 20 million investors in mutual funds, out of 120 million wage earners.

Ken Swope, a Boston-based Democratic consultant, said he figured political consultants probably ranked well below car salesmen in the public's regard these days.

Mr. Zintl, who retired as a managing director of J. P. Morgan & Company in New York, is a Boston-based consultant on criminal justice issues.

The strategist, Michael Whouley, is a Boston-based consultant with a reputation as a field general rallying troubled campaigns.

The advertising, created by Ken Swope, a Boston-based consultant, came later than that for Mr. Clinton or Mr. Kerrey.