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...Chairman" is fine, but ''Chairperson" isn't, according to one of the language's most respected arbiters, the Oxford University Press, whose new 770-page paperback dictionary states crisply; "The word chairman may be used of persons of either...
...have served on the ACSR for two years, almost, this year as its chairperson, and my colleagues occasionally emit sympathetic sounds when I tell them this. I in fact regard this as a privilege rather than a burden, and I'm pleased to be here today to have a chance to talk about...
...them are beginning to start their own small enterprises on the side. Wichita's unemployment rate for blacks, 7.7%, is much lower than the nation's average. Women are also getting ahead. Olive Beech, who with her late husband founded Beech Aircraft, is now its chairman (not chairperson), and thus ranks as one of the nation's highest female executives. Wichita's Nancy Kassebaum is the U.S. Senate's only woman member; the city's mayor is Connie Peters...
Nina S. Dayton, former chairperson of the SAC, said yesterday that "all constituencies" of the University should assist in designing a set of criteria for potential donors. Dayton said that a set of guidelines would both have to "incorporate the fundamental principles of the University, such as commitment to human rights and racial equality, and frame an approach to fundraising that offers clarity and security to potential donors...
...that a student government will likely result in a term-bill charge. The fact remains that the Constitutional Convention early in deliberations studied student organizations at other schools and discovered that the most effective student governments collected revenues from students in the form of mandatory charges. Michael Calabrese, Convention chairperson, was asked at the conclusion of a South House town meeting how the proposed government would be funded; he answered that they would try to raise money through dances, movies and the like, but would probably have to turn to a mandatory term charge, similar to the system...