UBS replaced the trading group's general counsel and effectively demoted Lawrence G. Whalley, who had been Enron's president and left to head the trading group at UBS.

In addition, he effectively demoted his former subordinate Sofia Curtis by transferring her into Grissom's team instead of making her acting supervisor position permanent.

Despite this high finish the creation of the 'National Division' for season 1983-84 effectively demoted the YM, their lack of facilities costing them a place in the newly-created division.

Davis then refused to confirm Hill's promotion, effectively demoting him back to major general.

The commission contended that successive administrations, skeptical of career civil servants, had imposed a top-heavy layer of political appointees with little expertise in running agencies, effectively demoting and demoralizing the longtime civil servants who should be the core management force.

In the chaotic weeks following the old government's collapse, computer records in many ministries were stealthily altered to effectively demote thousands of once privileged party bosses, said officials of Iraq's interim government.

Mr. Ware's departure plans, disclosed after a management shuffle that effectively demoted him, had caused concern within Atlanta's civil rights community and among some investors, particularly since the company is facing a racial-discrimination lawsuit filed by eight of its black employees.

In June 1983, Paribas' president Herve M. Pinet, became chairman and chief executive of Becker, effectively demoting the American executives.

He effectively demoted D'Arco by naming a four-man panel to run the family in his absence.

The aide said Mr. Skinner had generated some bad will by effectively demoting four or five White House aides and that there were complaints that he "delegates too much."