chairman
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“We are in expansion, you don’t dismiss that, but folks are very worried,” said Susan Spence, chairman of the ISM survey.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Broughshane Environment Wildfowl and Wildlife Trust's chairman, Gary Hayward, said they incident had been a "nightmare".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
“Warren, all they’re doing is lying a little bit to make the money come in,” added Buffett’s vice chairman, the late Charlie Munger.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The centre is the vision of 31-year-old Anant Ambani, youngest son of one of Asia's richest men Mukesh Ambani, chairman of retail-to-refining giant Reliance Industries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
“I think Alan Greenspan will go down as the worst chairman of the Federal Reserve in history,” he’d say, when given the slightest chance.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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“Fed chairmen don’t get those seven votes just by showing up,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Earlier Fed chairmen have worked to further Fed independence and accountability by bolstering the role of the Federal Reserve Banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
His term as governor doesn’t expire until 2028, and most chairmen step down from the board when their chairmanship ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
There are dedicated recruitment staff at many clubs now but managers and chairmen still need a free week before any deadline, so please use some common sense and stop this madness!
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
I wrote a note to all the chairmen of English departments who had offered me jobs.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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As such he supervised the corporation's financial affairs, chairmaned some of its most important committees.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was late in the afternoon of the same day that the Federative Council sent its committee, chairmaned by Engineer Scott, to interview the ex-general manager at his rooms in the Clarendon.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
His plan: an Industry Council made up of an equal number of representatives from management and S. W. O. C., chairmanned by a Government man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He took a conspicuous but uninspired part in G. O. Politics, chairmanned the 1930 Senatorial Campaign committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For four years he has chairmanned the Federal Council's Commission on a Just and Durable Peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Because of shrewdly worded British reservations the Import Duties Advisory Committee chairmanned by hatchet-faced, be-monocled Sir George May can up tariffs to protect any British industry which asked protection before the "truce" was signed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, chairmanned by President Hoover's great & good friend Henry Mauris Robinson, reported a ratio of cash & Governments to deposits of 26%.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Legislative Branch, Sections 4–6
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