In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 09/14/2006
   at 06:43 AM, "Denise P. Kalm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Chair became accepted practice as a way of making the position sound
>less  sexist back when people cared.

Doesn't the parliamentary form "The chair recognizes &foo" go back
much further than that?
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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