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BlackRock chief investment officer of global fixed income Rick Rieder asks rhetorically in a note.

From Axios

Over the past three months, the shop has seen three to four times the number of sales month over month, according to Rob DeChiaro, chief digital officer of Golf.

From Digiday

If all that weren’t enough, Dalio lost an arbitration fight with ex-staffers, is feuding with his former co-chief executive and has axed dozens of employees.

From Fortune

The former president and CEO of Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank by market cap, says no chief executive “should sit in their chair for dozens of years.”

From Fortune

That’s now halved to four, said chief revenue officer Josh Stinchcomb.

From Digiday

“Having been a legislator and a mayor, I particularly enjoy being a chief executive,” he said.

This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.

“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.

M'Bongo, the great chief of this neighbourhood, paid a ceremonial visit to my husband.

But,” said the prime minister of Flatland, starting a difficulty, “who is to be greatest chief?

But it was not only as an organiser and transmitter of orders that Berthier proved his usefulness to his chief.

By the end of the campaign of 1796 he had proved that he was as great a chief of the staff as Bonaparte was a great commander.

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On this page you'll find 203 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chief, such as: leading, main, preeminent, prime, principal, and arch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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