21.   Cook has not endorsed any of the candidates but many county chairmen have.

22.   Economists do know that deflation plays out slowly and insidiously and that the Federal Reserve Board chairman has little in his arsenal to counteract it.

23.   Either way, the next chairman will have to stir things up.

24.   For a long time, the chairman had no jump shot.

25.   He said he opposed ratification of both treaties but acknowledged that despite the considerable powers a committee chairman has, he might not be able to block them.

26.   He said that chairmen often had to rise above the parochial interests of their districts and that items such as this grant were just compensation for doing so.

27.   Its chairman had clout.

28.   No other company chairman has quite the taste for adventure or the genius for publicity of Richard Branson, boss of the sprawling Virgin group.

29.   Newsroom committee chairmen have to post the minutes.

30.   Olympia Snowe never realized that one committee chairman had the power to stop a confirmation hearing.