ALAN GREENSPAN was a master of abstruse language as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
"I think it's time," foreign language Oscar committee chairman Mark Johnson told Deadline.
GROVER WHITEHURST, an authority on early childhood education and language development and chairman of Stony Brook's psychology department, was sworn in this week as assistant secretary of education.
In July, at a hearing of the House subcommittee charged with assessing the military's progress in language training, the chairman, Representative Vic Snyder, Democrat of Arkansas, said: "I think the Pentagon has a sense that they're moving in the right direction.
Instead, according to the Journal, "the new language by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to be circulated as early as Monday is an attempt to address criticism of his proposal unveiled last month that would ban broadband providers from blocking or slowing down websites," but would still let companies that are content-intensive "pay [ISPs] for faster delivery of Web content to customers".
How dare this incompetent twerpette use such insulting language to the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who'd supported our interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo and argued for an international force to possibly stop the genocide in Darfur?
"I don't understand this language," said Senator McCain, chairman of the commerce committee.
But I have read the statute that applies to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and it has language that says the chairman, and I quote, 'must fully inform other commissioners of all pending actions.'".
"Our focus remains on major-language markets," said Peter Olson, chairman and chief executive of Random House, "and this was the one where we didn't have a presence, until now".
At the same time, NBC said that it would promote Jeff Gaspin, a longtime executive who oversees NBC's lineup of cable channels, like USA and Bravo; its syndication business; and the Spanish-language network Telemundo, to chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment.
