commissioner
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The Southern Section, under commissioner Mike West, went out of its way to try to catch those breaking transfer rules last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
In one county, for instance, an agricultural commissioner fined a farmer $2,000 for failing to provide safety training for workers who applied pesticides in fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The suspended deputy police commissioner, who was detained on Monday, has made no comment.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Chris Slevin, who visited Beijing in July as a commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said Chinese officials peppered his delegation with questions about the bilateral AI dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
During a visit to the Rad Lab in November 1946, AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss, a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, pulled him aside to offer him the institute’s directorship.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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MacPherson said county agricultural commissioners have discretion in deciding which enforcement tools — warning letters, written notices, fines — to use in a given situation, depending on the “nature and severity of the violation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
In one instance, the report says, the two commissioners even wrote a letter complaining to the chief secretary, the top bureaucrat in the Indian government.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In 1989, he took office on the county board of commissioners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
While similar figures for the UK aren't collated, Dawson fears a shrinking television industry in the UK will make it harder for commissioners to make LGBTQ+ stories.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
But one of his fellow seven commissioners, T. A. M. Craven, noted that the FCC should be cautious about censorship.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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