1.   A health authority chairman has said a hospital facing substantial cutbacks is unlikely to lose its emergency departments.

2.   They need to save money.But the authority chairman now says whatever does happen fears about the loss of acute services are unlikely to be realised.

3.   Earlier this summer, the Back Bay project appeared close to dead after authority chairman James J. Kerasiotes and Mayor Thomas M. Menino butted heads over it.

4.   Pataki and his power authority chairman, Richard Kessel, insist that the payouts were surreptitious and violated the takeover and merger pacts.

5.   Political pressure was never hinted at during the hearing, but Dr. Milton Guiberteau, the waste disposal authority chairman, conceded that it hovered, invisibly, throughout.

6.   Richard M. Kessel, the authority chairman, has pledged that the new owners would not seek the tax refunds.

7.   Such warning shots seemed lost on authority chairman Kerasiotes and on Jeffries, who trumpted the deal in separate interviews as good for all concerned.

8.   The authority chairman, E. Virgil Conway, also threatened to eliminate free- and reduced-fare rides for students.

9.   The sports authority chairman, Jack Rains, said he is not overly concerned about anything stifling the private sector.

10.   Authority chairman Richard Gordon has repeatedly dismissed pollution charges in the free port as unfounded.