Mr. Labrecque, who is 51 years old, was promoted from president in June in a long-expected move.

Thus, the arrival of Bordick and the long-expected move of Ripken to third.

Earlier today, in a long-expected move, the Mets fired General Manager Steve Phillips.

PAGE A6 Knicks Fire Larry Brown In a long-expected move, the team lets its coach go, and it may try to avoid paying the more than $40 million owed him.

A long-expected move by local telephone companies to issue credit cards would be "one more nail in the coffin of bank profitability from Visa and Mastercards," Mr. Wallace said.

LEAD: Donald J. Trump, the billionaire developer, formally made his long-expected move into Nevada gaming last week by filing incorporation papers for Trump Nevada Inc.

The long-expected move will make Rockwell the state's fourth-largest public company, based on its 1987 revenue of $12 billion, but it comes as a symbolic blow to Pittsburgh.

Interpublic is a publicly held holding company and the handful of analysts contacted yesterday seemed to approve of the long-expected move.

In a long-expected move, Fox Broadcasting yesterday announced that John Matoian will leave his position as president of Fox Entertainment.

From the United States come signs that the Japanese car manufacturers Toyota may be making its long-expected move to become 'a force' in general aviation.