commission
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Yet Nancy Altman, president of the advocacy group Social Security Works, described such a commission as “a waste of time.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Cookie is thrilled to win a commission from Chuck Halsey, a neurosurgeon, to renovate his brick mansion in Pill Hill, “a once-fashionable neighborhood filled with doctors.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“This was the best CoCom ever,” said Nicole Hoevertsz, chair of the IOC coordination commission for LA28.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Megacap tech companies do sometimes commission such reports, notes Anita Ramasastry, a law professor at the University of Washington.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Tests to duplicate this one success also failed until a colleague of his on the commission, James Carroll, caught the disease from an infected insect and nearly died.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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