Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other countries, a government would automatically have called out its army to put down the kind of civil unrest that beset Lebanon in the past fortnight. But Lebanon's 16,000-man armed forces, like the nation itself, are a special case. Since the high command is predominantly Christian, much of the Moslem population would have resented the army's presence-and the soldiers might have split along religious lines. So the government prudently allowed the troops to remain in barracks...
...sooner had Cairns come within reach of the top than his decline began. Last week Whitlam sacked his second in command in the midst of the worst political scandal in Australia's history. At issue were charges that associates of Cairns had used their influence to seek foreign loans for the government that would have brought them millions of dollars in commissions...
...order to cope with the inadequacies of the market, a rising number of experts urge capitalist governments to adopt some form of economic planning. But a grave problem is that command planning, in which government bureaucrats decide how much and just what goods are to be produced, is the antithesis of capitalism. Western European nations are even disillusioned with their persuasion-and-incentive plans of the 1960s, which also generally failed to anticipate the economic crises of the 1970s. Yet more and more people in the U.S. seem attracted to the idea of setting up a federal body that would...
...perceived differently. And the ability of the command economy to centralize power has an irresistible appeal for otherwise shaky leaders of developing nations. As Moynihan observes, many of the developing nations have an "interest in deprecating the economic achievements of capitalism, since none of their own managed economies are doing well...
...blades can be "feathered" (or turned on their axes), by manual control; they will continue to whirl at a steady 40 r.p.m. even as the wind varies. In future NASA models, chip-sized computers developed for spacecraft will monitor the performance of the windmills and automatically command them to adjust to wind changes...