chief
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Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial, said that he and his colleagues have started to refer to oil prices as the “chart of truth.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
"We are happy to report that the threat... has been eliminated," TJ McGovern, interim fire chief for the Orange County Fire Authority, said in a video on X.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
At the time Peter Murrell was the chief executive of the SNP, while his wife was party leader and Scotland's first minister.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
TJ McGovern, interim chief of the Fire Authority, said firefighters had gained confidence the pressurized tank would not experience a “boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion,” or BLEVE.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
The reason this didn’t happen is that Vasili Arkhipov, chief of staff for the four Soviet subs, just happened to be aboard B-59.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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