Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of momentum is already causing it to fall behind events in several regions. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's trip to the Middle East last week was part of a skillful diplomatic campaign aimed at giving Moscow a major voice in the region. In Panama, General Fred Woerner, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, issued an uncharacteristically public complaint that Washington has no real policy toward that country. In Asia, the focus of Bush's efforts last week, China and Viet Nam are negotiating a settlement in Kampuchea with almost no input from Washington. In Western Europe, allies beguiled...
...spare Bush further embarrassment. "Even if he wins, what has he won?" they asked. It was a difficult question to answer, far more difficult than the question of what Bush stands to lose: not just a Secretary of Defense, but the all-important impression that he is in command of a government with sound judgment, creative ideas and lots of momentum...
...Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...
...talking about the secretary of interior, we're talking about someone next to the president at the very top of the nuclear chain of command," Nunn said...
...realize that it is not such a great mental burden to memorize eight commands to pass this ridiculous test. Had I felt it was worth the time and effort to pick through the booklets to learn the intricacies of "the script command," I could have spared myself much mental anguish. But it is not worth wasting precious time learning something useless that will soon be forgotten...