chairman
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Earlier this year, FCC chairman Brendan Carr made the extraordinary demand that ABC file for renewals for eight of its owned-and-operated stations years ahead of schedule.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
In July this year, Chey Tae-won, the chairman of the corporate giant SK Group, was ordered to pay his ex-wife 944bn won which, prior to today's ruling, was the largest divorce award in Korean history.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Though other senior executives were skeptical, Dyson and Zyman finally persuaded Roberto C. Goizueta, the Cuban-born chairman and chief executive of the parent company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Davis’ eye for collecting art reflected the same instinct he used to identify emerging musical talent, said Sara Friedlander, chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Yu Jian, chairman of the class and one of the best students, was somewhere in the middle of the line, while I dawdled so that I could be in the back of the group.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Fed chairmen don’t get those seven votes just by showing up,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
To the chairmen of those committees, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Jim Jordan: What is taking so long?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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 started calling department chairmen to ask for another week, another ten days—‘more time to reach a decision’— to avoid the decision I would have to make.
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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In Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation.
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Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss.
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The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health.
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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
These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating it as "old."
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.
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On that date the Quintuplets' Board of Guardians, chairmanned by Ontario Surrogate H. R. Valin, will hand them over for future bringing up to the gentle Grey Nuns of Ontario's Pembroke Diocese.
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Owen D. Young chairmanned a committee to raise $1.000,000.
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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.
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The Legislative Branch, Sections 4–6
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