chairman
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Milestones, and perhaps especially those punctuated with 13-digit achievements, can serve as a good time to reflect, says Booth, the chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Guido Barilla, chairman of Barilla Group, in a statement said the company was impressed by the Goodles brand, the products’ quality and the company’s momentum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
His comments came after Kevin Warsh, chairman of the Fed, said last week that policymakers would "have work to do" if they were not confident cost-of-living pressures were easing for Americans.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Executive chairman Donald Tang told AFP last year that the company has "zero tolerance" for forced labour.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
This led to the formation of a microwave committee with Loomis as chairman and Lawrence as a member, and in turn to the NDRC’s subsequent decision to establish a crash program at MIT.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
Sullivan and Gold became joint chairmen of West Ham when they completed their takeover of the club in January 2010.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Most chairmen leave when their terms expire, but they do not have to -- and Powell could remain a governor until 2028.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
I wrote a note to all the chairmen of English departments who had offered me jobs.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
As such he supervised the corporation's financial affairs, chairmaned some of its most important committees.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
For four years he has chairmanned the Federal Council's Commission on a Just and Durable Peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
He took a conspicuous but uninspired part in G. O. Politics, chairmanned the 1930 Senatorial Campaign committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Owen D. Young chairmanned a committee to raise $1.000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two interests which did not think themselves sufficiently respected were the protective bondholders' committee headed by Vice President John W. Stedman of Prudential Insurance Co. and an independent committee chairmanned by Historian Charles A. Beard.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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The Legislative Branch, Sections 4–6
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