Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is doubtful. Nominally, the congress is responsible for drawing up local budgets and passing national policy resolutions. But as the delegates knew, any decisions would be subject to ratification by Gaddafi's all-military Revolutionary Command Council. Still, many of the congress-goers took the floor to express grievances and make their views known. The proceedings, lasting eight to ten hours daily, were telecast nationally, and Gaddafi made no move to clear the hall (as he had done at the congressional session in January) of outsiders who might draw wrong conclusions about Libyan unity...
...Incentives are more likely than centralized regulations to achieve effective and efficient results," Schultze said. Such incentives include gasoline and pollution taxes which serve the public good without using "the command-and-control techniques of government bureaucracy," he added...
...largely endowed Change, Inc.?a fund from which artists with urgent cash trouble could get small sustaining grants within a matter of days. He could afford to help: his recent Hoarfrost multiples sell for up to $4,000 each; the 1962 silk-screen Barge could well command $500,000 on the market today. "Bob has put more of his money and time back into the art world than any artist alive," says one of his acquaintances. "He needs to believe in an art community. It's straight out of St. Paul?'We must love one another...
...were certain to produce a left of center government, which under intense popular pressure would have to pursue that orientation. In these circumstances, the U.S. government gladly acquiesced in the colonels' coup, in the occupation of Athens by elite units incorporated under the NATO military command. And wholehearted U.S. support continued throughout the seven-year period of the fascist dictatorship, in a manner that constituted an outright provocation for the freedom-loving Greek people...
...pronunciamento beat ABC to the verdict by seconds, CBS by 15 minutes.* "We're hypercautious," admitted Walter Cronkite. "We're always first," said a happy NBC News President Richard Wald as he munched tortilla chips at his Rockefeller Center election command post. To which William Sheehan, Wald's counterpart at ABC, replied: "I'd be satisfied to call...