1.   The vote was twenty-four hours away now, but the election commission chairman was cool as a cucumber.

2.   Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the commission chairman, handed the final report to President Nelson Mandela in a colorful ceremony Thursday.

3.   At that point, commission chairman Robert Hallisey threatened Bergantino with contempt and a stiff fine.

4.   At times, even the commission chairman, Alan Dixon, a former senator from Illinois, was unable to suppress a yawn.

5.   Bill Berlat of Tucson, the commission chairman, said burro overpopulations and the resultant damage to wildlife habitat have been going on far too long.

6.   A year ago Iraq provoked a crisis by expelling all U.S. inspectors, and the commission chairman, Richard Butler of Australia, withdrew his team for several weeks.

7.   After hours of discussion, commission chairman Jack Pfister ended the meeting and asked members to draw up a compromise.

8.   Alan Kosloff, the commission chairman, told members he was concerned that the decision was being based on good art vs. bad art.

9.   Breaux actively sought the job of commission chairman.

10.   But the Brussels bureaucracy, led by EU commission chairman Jacques Santer, continues to conduct a high-powered propaganda campaign that is scornfully dismissive of the doubters.