As police commissioner, Thomas Browne realized it would be easier to patrol there if his officers were on bicycles rather than in cars.
Chenery was philosophical at the time, saying to a commissioner: "I realize your problem, too.
"But the commissioner now realizes that he has to help out the districts".
When N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern realizes that using a synthetic basketball is a mistake, he says in the middle of the season: well, my bad, we'll just go back to leather.
"The Regents and Commissioner Mills have realized very quickly that in order to get standards higher, the quality of the teachers in the classroom becomes absolutely imperative," Ms. Weingarten said.
As the S.E.C. considers the comments, the commissioners should realize that if they do not adopt meaningful reforms, the situation will only become worse.
The Oslo newspapers, though, showed pictures of Hamsun in a seemingly cheerful meeting with the Reich Commissioner, and Hamsun certainly realized that he had been used.
"The words were barely out of the commissioner's mouth when he realized that it was not appropriate," said Michael Catania, executive director of The Nature Conservancy's state chapter and a former deputy environmental commissioner in the administrations of two former governors -- Thomas H. Kean and Jim Florio.
That's when Linda Schwartz, the commissioner of veterans' affairs, said she realized it was time to build a statewide memorial for veterans.
"Somewhere down the line, they should have realized this machine contained toxic materials," Commissioner Kashyap said in a telephone interview.
