1.   On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform.

2.   Such is the spark of creativity generated by the presence of a member of the executive committee demanding to be asked questions.

3.   The executive committee members of Salomon Brothers Decided the mortgage Market was bad news.

4.   This would have appointed a new executive committee which, in turn, would have chosen a new chairman.

5.   Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size.

6.   He sits on the executive committee that manages Lloyds.

7.   Today its executive committee voted unanimously to reject the proposals.

8.   The failed attack was deeply embarrassing for Arafat because the PLF leader, Mahmoud Abul Abbas, was a member of the PLO executive committee.