Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then quit would be an overwhelming disgrace, roughly akin to the basic Irish horror of becoming an informer. One prisoner, Sean MacStiofain, at the time the No. 2 man in the I.R.A., started a hunger strike in 1972 and quit after 57 days. He was relieved of his command...
...with one voice on foreign policy issues, an effort that has sometimes brought him into collision with Weinberger, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and occasionally people in his own department. Neumann had earlier displeased Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
Banisadr flees his enemies and sets up a command post in Paris...
...choices to the player's old team. Unconcerned about losing amateurs-few of whom make it to the majors-the owners went on a free-agent binge. Over four years, beginning in 1976, average player salaries rose from $52,300 to $143,756. Now even middling free agents command $300,000 a year. The owners' frenzied bidding hit a peak last year when the Yankees signed Dave Winfield, a .279 career hitter for the San Diego Padres, for a cool $23 million over ten years. The lords of baseball obviously needed something to protect them from themselves. They...
...half. Ice-cream sales in the U.S. hit a peak in 1975 and since then have declined slightly (from 15.69 qt. per capita last year to 14.62 qt.), but sales of the most expensive and best-tasting brands have been increasing by about 17% a year and now command 11% of the market. Americans produced 829,798,000 gal. of ice cream in all grades last year, and we eat more of it than anybody else, with Australians and New Zealanders spooning their way across the finish line a distant second and third. If all that tonnage is hard...