Word: billete
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...associates say, it began stalling out after he won his second star with his promotion to major general in September 1992. Bill Clinton gave him a third star in 1994. Two years later, then Lieut. General Marc Cisneros recalls hearing that Clark was seeking to win the four-star billet as head of the U.S. Southern Command--after the service had nominated Cisneros for the post. Cisneros would have seemed the ideal candidate: a Spanish speaker who had taken Manuel Noriega into custody in 1990 when the Panamanian leader surrendered to U.S. troops. Clark, in contrast, speaks Russian...
...Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux to a dear, dying scoundrel, featured a jarring clip of a hijacked plane crashing into the World Trade Center. And the two main Palme d'Or contenders showed how the world could end in America: with a bang. Dogville - like Von Trier's best-known films, Breaking the Waves...
...world's most industrialized nations - and that has city authorities extremely worried, particularly in light of the difficulties in policing its narrow streets. They reportedly considered holding the summit on a ship in the bay, but later decided that would be a colossal humiliation. Still, they're planning to billet the heads of state aboard ships, from where they can be flown to the summit venue, and to create a "ring of steel" around the city in the hope that by shutting it off to the outside world they can keep out the malcontents...
...from advancing in the field. Porges boasts, "Women are given the same opportunities as the men in all ROTC endeavors-a fact that can be clearly seen by the number of women we have as midshipmen leaders in our battalion. I, in fact, was 'Battalion Commander,' the top midshipmen billet last semester-which basically means I ran the show from the midshipman's standpoint...
...beyond the state's capabilities, and at 3:30 p.m. on July 9, Miller sent e-mail to CDC headquarters in Atlanta, asking that a group of scientists from the centers' Epidemic Intelligence Service--the SWAT team of infectious medicine--be sent to Wyoming. For epidemiologists, a billet in the EIS is a much coveted post. Researchers compete vigorously for the few available spots, and when a position is granted, the tenure lasts just two years. After that, EIS investigators are encouraged to seek work in the same field at the local level. Miller had been an EIS member...