I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spy chief ( also a spymaster )
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Britain's first woman spy chief
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John Le Carre 's fictional spy master George Smiley
air chief marshal
chief constable
chief executive officer
Chief Executive
chief inspector
chief justice
chief of staff
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the White House chief of staff
Chief Rabbi
chief superintendent
commander in chief
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The Queen is Commander in Chief of the British armed forces.
fire chief
main/chief/central etc preoccupation
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Their main preoccupation was how to feed their families.
sb's main/chief competitor
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The company's main competitor is Vodaphone.
sb's main/chief opponent
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Who was her main opponent for the presidential nomination?
sb's main/chief rival
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Who is the champion's main rival?
sb's primary/chief/principal concern
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The president said his primary concern was the welfare of the American people.
the main/chief opponent
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one of the new law's main opponents
the main/chief/principal guest
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The Prime Minister was one of the main guests at the event.
the prime/chief/main suspect
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She didn’t realise he was the prime suspect in a murder case.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cause
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In due course the numbers will be drastically reduced by natural mortalities, disease and predators being the chief causes .
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Criminologists have long argued that one of the chief causes of crime is fear of crime.
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By then, of course, the hostages had become the chief cause .
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In women aged 65 and older, spasms are one of the chief causes of loss of bladder control.
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With Reagan, they had been the chief cause all along.
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Neighbourliness among the poor suffered greatly during the inter-war years, when unemployment rather than low wages became the chief cause of poverty.
concern
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The prioress seemed to regard my master as her chief concern .
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Health care is probably the chief concern on the road.
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According to one such report Richard's chief concern in the autumn of 1178 was with his southern frontier.
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Dole, by contrast, did best among voters who listed the federal deficit as their chief concern .
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Their chief concern is that their status as skilled specialists should be recognised and respected.
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The liquidity problem remained the chief concern , said Saurabh Dani of Dani&038;.
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Last year, with her sisters now undergraduates, 17-year-old Clare was our chief concern .
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My own chief concern is with myth as a living whole.
constable
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They included the chief constable , chief probation officer, and the chief crown prosecutor.
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The chief constable is responsible for the direction and control of the force.
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There are moves to have the chief constables of the new forces appointed directly by the Home Secretary instead of local police authorities.
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The minister may also call for the retirement of a chief constable .
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Leslie Sharp, Strathclyde's chief constable , last year won an extra £4.7 million to put another 155 officers on patrol.
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It is virtually impossible for a Police Authority to obtain a report from a chief constable contrary to his wishes.
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The county's chief constable , who heads a national committee on crime, says he hasn't the resources to cope.
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Local worthies rarely challenged the rectitude of the chief constable .
economist
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The selloff could begin this fall and continue into 1997, said Chuck Lambert, chief economist for the association.
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Stiglitz left this week to become chief economist at the World Bank.
engineer
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We got out at Pendre and Graham and the chief engineer gave us very detailed guided tours showing the extent of operations.
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So Rudd was appointed team manager and chief engineer for the season.
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To reassure the public, Mulholland and his chief engineer rode out to the site on March 12 for an inspection.
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He wanted to be chief engineer of Aston Martin.
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Joseph King was head of the Midvale machine shop under Taylor, who by now was chief engineer in all but title.
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The Ariadne's chief engineer , Lieutenant McCafferty, rarely ventured near his own domain.
executive
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But Robert Brown, Bombardier's chief executive , told analysts yesterday the SkyWest deal involved no government subsidies.
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B to become chief executive of Cognizant.
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In each case the idea was generated internally and driven by a dynamic chief executive .
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Mr Weissman will become chairman and chief executive of Cognizant.
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Williams Holdings, the industrial holding company, was weaker after the company confirmed Brian McGowan is to resign as chief executive .
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To a large extent, initiative in policy formation is centered in the chief executive .
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The chief executives said they were having great difficulty coming up with novel products and services.
inspector
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I think Tomlinson will do a good job and restore credibility as chief inspector .
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While he was chief inspector of schools parents could be sure that they had a powerful champion of high standards.
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I assume the present senior chief inspector will produce his annual report next year.
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His daughter's beauty had never ceased to surprise the chief inspector .
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The chief inspector climbed in over the sill, eased down the window and found herself in the hall.
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It was typical of his years as chief inspector of schools.
justice
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The chief justice of the King's Bench pronounced the verdict.
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Overall, Lucas, who retired in April 1996, was a successful chief justice .
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Those who refused, including the chief justice , lost their jobs.
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Two of the five supreme court judges are white, including the chief justice , Anthony Gubbay.
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I was to visit all the chief justices east of the Mississippi.
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Ten years later he became its chief justice .
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This was the chief justice of the state supreme court!
minister
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He was rescued by chief minister Robert Harley, who put him to work as a government spy and propagandist.
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When he succeeded to the throne in 1625, Buckingham became his chief minister .
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After that, any chief minister daring to build his own political base stood in danger of being turned out.
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He was an archbishop, the king's chief minister , but he was also a cardinal of the Roman church.
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Sharad Pawar, chief minister of Maharashtra, is by far the strongest Congress state leader.
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In response, Kashmir's chief minister , Farooq Abdullah, produced new autonomy proposals.
negotiator
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His chief negotiator , Education Minister Domingo Palermo, has not met with the rebels for days.
officer
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The officers should be led by a chief executive assisted by a principal chief officers management team consisting of about six members.
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Bob has been a member of the department for a very long time, a chief officer for a very long time.
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The chief officer is the Registrar.
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Stephany took over when former chief officer David Janssen resigned in February.
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Each of these services had a separate department with its own chief officer .
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The toughest chief officer , or the group with the most powerful chair, will usually win.
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In practice much of the initiation and review of management policy fell to the four full-time members acting with the chief officers .
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Below the chief officers the rest of the department's staff will be arranged on the same hierarchical basis.
reason
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In fact, they were the chief reasons for watching the programme.
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Refining overcapacity and falling profit margins are among the chief reasons , they said.
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The software company's propriety was cited as the chief reason for Camelot's initial exclusion from the final bidding round.
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Without doubt the chief reason for this is the eastern influence on the Byzantine Empire.
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The chief reason for this was that people were living longer.
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The chief reason for this appeared to be D'Amato's obnoxiously entertaining performances on the crystal bucket.
rival
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Taylor and his chief rival , Alhaji Kromah, have announced they will run for president.
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His chief rival for the nomination, Sen.
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He stayed in office for two terms, a record 14 years, longer than did his chief rival , Gen.
superintendent
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Note. -There is a separate procedure under section 86 for dealing with complaints against senior officers above the rank of chief superintendent .
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Manciple disappeared and Stephen was questioned by a chief superintendent called Malm.
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The chief superintendent was pleased with himself.
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Blanche did not like the chief superintendent glowing smugly over her mistake.
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The chief superintendent had something else to tell her.
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The chief superintendent seemed to revel in the reprimand he issued to her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Chief Executive
the Chief Rabbi
the Chief Whip
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Advertising provides the radio station's chief form of revenue.
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Rehnquist is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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the chief medical officer
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Troops have been stationed in the chief fortresses of the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was soon appointed chief engineer of the subsidiary company, Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co.
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Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade.
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Mr Caserta led Caserta as president and chief executive.
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The chief internal auditor must be assisted by sufficient staff of the right quality and quantity.
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The chief policeman went on talking with the Brooks Brothers clerk, seemingly unperturbed by the size and mood of the mob.
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The duchess's chief failing seems to me an inability even to spell perjury.
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The new chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, may make a difference.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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At the center bottom of the U sat the highest-ranking man in the room, whose title was assistant section chief .
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Y., the first municipality to require detectors, said Richard Salzmann, assistant chief of the Kingston fire department.
deputy
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Yeltsin fired his deputy chief of staff, Alexander I.. Kazakov, on Friday.
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They included Erskine B.. Bowles, then deputy chief of staff.
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One of the victims was a former deputy chief of defence staff, Sir Kenneth Hayr.
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The West Wing job. Deputy chief of staff.
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According to the same newspaper, the deputy chief of staff, Moshe Ya'alon, thinks in rather apocalyptic terms.
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Michael D.. McGinty, deputy chief of Air Force personnel.
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Sir John Day is now a deputy chief of the defence staff.
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Soo-Il learned quickly and within several years was named civilian deputy chief , while he was still in his twenties.
joint
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Like the vice-president, the chairman of the joint chiefs must keep his advice to the president secret.
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On Saturday, the joint chiefs met with Arteaga and formally withdrew support from Bucaram.
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The joint chiefs were unwilling to support a treaty at this juncture for strategic reasons.
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The other members of the joint chiefs agreed with him that the Indochina conflict was the wrong war in the wrong place.
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Acheson said that the joint chiefs of staff preferred the latter course of action.
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He brushed aside the views of the joint chiefs of staff, ascribing their opposition to ignorance of the Far East.
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He was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff several times, senators, presidents.
local
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Win that, often through a local chief , and you have a block of votes.
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The local police chief had scared him off by threatening to arrest him for manslaughter if Annie perished.
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This did not necessarily mean that all local party chiefs in the minorities were also lethargic during 1922.
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All these schemes begin with a public meeting which local chiefs and members of parliament attend.
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Marat Zakhidov, a senior member of parliament, knew all the local chiefs personally.
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The Wingti government also claimed that the army's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs .
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He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night.
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Gatumba centre harboured small stocks belonging to the local rebel chiefs .
military
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Abdul Khader Salman Khamis as military chief of intelligence to replace Maj.-Gen.
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Efforts to reorganize and liberalize the army alienated other military chiefs .
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The change was hailed by gay campaigners and accepted-in some cases through gritted teeth-by military chiefs .
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Victor Malu, the military chief of staff who is close to Obasanjo, have praised the U.S. aid program.
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They issued a joint communiqué calling for continuing contacts between their military chiefs , exercise of restraint and maintaining channels of communication.
tribal
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He curbed the tribal chiefs and imposed a secular legal code.
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But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs .
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Among the smaller northern peoples there was no tribal aristocracy, chiefs only being chosen temporarily for specific purposes such as war.
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It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed.
■ NOUN
army
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In 1988 Zia was the army chief .
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Wahid considered appointing Wirahadikusumah as the new army chief .
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Moshe Yaalon, the army chief of intelligence, told a news conference.
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Mr Kostunica's main power is in appointing the foreign and defence ministers and the army chief of staff.
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Upon taking office, Chavalit, a former army chief , wooed the military to try to shore up his political power.
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He recently got a boost when Mr Mubarak replaced a rival, Salah Halabi, as army chief of staff.
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Dennis Reimer, the Army chief of staff, who could lose as many as 40, 000 soldiers.
bureau
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Self also believes it is wrong to assume that bureau chiefs generally control a monopoly.
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Benjamin Bradlee, the dashing Washington bureau chief for Newsweek.
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Newsweek has a new Washington bureau chief , the first woman ever to serve in that post.
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He has been a reporter, Washington correspondent, system editor, state editor and Baltimore County bureau chief .
crew
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Because our Hueys had no guns except the machine guns the crew chief and gunner used, they were called slicks.
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In other words, they helped the crew chiefs where required, as well as one another.
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A boy called Red, the crew chief for this ship, helped me strap in on the right side.
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The crew chief showed them the damage under the engine cowling.
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Gary DeHart, two-time series champion Terry Labonte's crew chief , also was fined and placed on probation in Daytona.
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All three crew chiefs work for Hendrick Motorsports.
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The crew chief and gunner were also happy.
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One crew chief stayed, dead.
executive
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Government chief executives , like their counterparts in the private sector, have overall responsibility for how their organizations perform.
fire
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Yet that is what fire chiefs say we should be doing if we want to make our homes safer.
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Brown swore in his new fire chief , Bob Demmons, during a ceremony Tuesday morning.
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Tot alarm wire alert FIRE chiefs yesterday warned parents to check the cables of baby alarms.
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After six months in office, Brown has named minorities to such high-profile spots as police and fire chiefs .
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There's no extra cash to pay for the search; fire chiefs are just hoping their alarm call is answered.
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The bowling alley fire in a neighboring town that killed five firemen when my father was deputy fire chief .
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Higuchi, a deputy fire chief for Los Angeles County since January 1994.
health
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In the wake of the Daily Post revelations, health chiefs have called an urgent meeting to discuss the matter.
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Now regional health chiefs have decided against funding the service themselves.
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The move, disclosed by health chiefs , is likely to create controversy after the outcry over school league tables.
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Meanwhile the Health chiefs say they will carry out the recommendations.
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Most health chiefs believe the reforms have gone too far and too fast according to a report published yesterday.
intelligence
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Qiao Shi, the intelligence chief who had abstained in the martial law vote earlier, endorsed an immediate army crackdown.
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Pallid and balding, Vladimiro Montesinos, 56, was Fujimori's intelligence chief and right-hand man.
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His successor was General Manuel Noriega, his intelligence chief .
police
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Read in studio Police chiefs say an operation to stop an illegal rave party was a great success.
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Law enforcement officials have denied knowing of any threats against the police chief before he was ambushed on Feb. 27.
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In 1994, New Orleans hired a new police chief to rescue the corrupt, ineffective police department from itself.
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The local police chief had scared him off by threatening to arrest him for manslaughter if Annie perished.
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He had accused the Minister of the Interior and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers.
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By then Bolcarro was playing ball with Nico, and so Morano, the police chief , surely was as well.
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In the tiny northern town of Sugar Hill, the police chief picks one day a month and issues tickets.
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If the police chief and mayor had not been at odds in 1992, we may not have had a riot.
security
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The security chief is involved in a court case in which some of his subordinates have been convicted of torture.
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More information about what goes on in the community will allow the security chiefs to anticipate potential problems in school.
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Alliance leader John Alderdice held emergency talks with the security chief at Stormont on the recent spate of murders and sectarian attacks.
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The security chiefs agreed that their efforts at making schools safe still leave students unprotected on their way to and from school.
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Only the security chiefs can guess how effective it would be, but large question-marks remain.
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But security chiefs in the province intend to keep their men on full alert.
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His security chief has now advised him to cancel the events planned at Coroa Vermelha.
■ VERB
become
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Among those tipped to become the new party chief is Mr Wolfgang Berghofer, Dresden's reformist mayor.
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The brave became a great chief , and he always took special care of his colt, which became a great horse.
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That Jim Barksdale chose the last option and became chief of Netscape is now the stuff of internet folklore.
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Ormea for twenty-four, after which he went on to become chief minister to his son and successor.
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Bush persuaded him to resign the top foreign policy post and become White House chief of staff, in charge of the campaign.
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Andy Card would become White House chief of staff.
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Unfortunately, none of his immediate family members saw him become chief .
name
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Soo-Il learned quickly and within several years was named civilian deputy chief , while he was still in his twenties.
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Under state law, one of the top three finishers must be named chief .
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Meara, a 22-year veteran of the force, topped the examination process and is widely expected to be named chief Friday.
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Steven Black was named chief operating officer at Smith Barney, succeeding Dimon.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Native American tribal chief
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He was chief of SAS flight operations in Stockholm.
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the police chief
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the then naval chief suspended the prison sentences; the men returned the money and were dismissed from the navy.
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But Yeltsin has met with only a handful of people in recent weeks, including Chernomyrdin and chief of staff Anatoly Chubais.
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His arms and legs were eaten by the principal chiefs of the nation, and the rest distributed among the people.
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Jeremy Boorda, who was chief of naval operations.
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That makes him chief of the largest urban forestry program in the nation.
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The role of the chief is crucial.
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Then the chief insulted him and the pony, saying the animal looked just like a mud pony.