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Standardized tests are dispatched wittily in a scene in 'Tis in which an "Academic Chairman" reels off a list of what McCourt, as a neophyte teacher, must do with a class full of angry, ignorant, rebellious teen-agers:
On Fox News Sunday , when Democratic Party chairman Roy Romer ritually expressed his "disappointment in [Clinton's] personal behavior," GOP chairman Jim Nicholson shot back, "I find it interesting that Roy Romer would say [Democrats] are on the high ground, when 73 percent of the people say his president lied to them, and over half of them say he obstructed justice."
But Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde is quoted by USA Today and the New York Times saying that talk of such a deal is "very premature."
Another tells the Wall Street Journal it means that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan admits he made a mistake.
Then, too, there have been the campaigners who have gone to what some regard as opposite extremes: if the head of a committee is known to be a man or a woman, then chairman or chairwoman must surely be the proper denotation; if the sex of the person is not known, then chairperson , though awkward-sounding, is the preferred form.