Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around a scoffing Pentagon, that kind of dialogue is projected if new proposals to organize labor unions in the armed forces should ever be realized. Formally, the Defense Department proclaims in a policy statement that collective bargaining in the military inevitably would cause an "erosion of command authority." Informally, one Pentagon official vows: "We'd fight it to the death. There's no way you can have an army that...
...that lies ahead, and last week Jerry Ford seemed to be confident that he could take on anyone and win. To show he was in command, Ford personally briefed the press on his budget-the first President to do so since Harry Truman (see story following page...
Fair was abruptly relieved of his command early this month-though many corps veterans still believe the wrong general was sacked. Initially, Fair was to have retired with a three-star general's pension-roughly $38,000 including various emoluments. But some Congressmen raised objections, and the Army retired him at his permanent two-star (major general) rank instead. That will cost the 32-year veteran as much as $3,000 a year...
...Three and the other Ivy schools were almost beyond counting in Government. There are still hordes of them around, but after seven years of Republican rule in the White House, so many men and women from the University of Chicago have moved into Government's command structure that Washington has begun to talk about "a University of Chicago Mafia...
...Registrar's Office in Holyoke Center, there's a room called Classrooms and Examinations that's an informal command headquarters for exam period administrative crises. The office is run by Jay Halfond, who is young and looks a little like the actor Richard Dreyfuss. This is the time of year, Halfond says, "that I'm crankier than usual...