An example is CANOE - the Committee to Assign Naval Origins to Everything (not a real committee!) - which gives an entirely spurious explanation as to the origins of "brass monkey weather".
These should be real legislative committees that have actual power and responsibility for passing serious legislation.
We were the working real estate committee that had to get things done with no budget".
The board gave the real estate committee the power to decide between two sites.
He is a past Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Urban Land Institute, past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Golden Gate University and on the real estate committee of the UCSF Foundation.
During her tenure as a Philharmonic trustee, Ms. Farley was head of the orchestra's real estate committee and led the effort to renovate Avery Fisher Hall.
The real estate committee didn't interview other architects or ask for submissions because "we didn't think we needed it," Mr. Mirante said.
Mrs. Weill, who joined the board in 1994 and became chairwoman last June, is not a member of the real estate committee.
"To try to tell an operator that they have to run a Colonial tavern is not realistic," said Robert N. McKay, chairman of the organization's real estate committee.
She is leading the effort to transform Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, as head of the orchestra's real estate committee.
