Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which side came out of the argument the stronger? Which side is more fit now to exercise command? The answer had better lie in some form of collaboration...
...chain of financial command in Saudi Arabia is short and autocratic. On multibillion-dollar investments, Crown Prince Fahd, who oversees most government matters for King Khalid, makes the final decision. For medium-scale transactions of a billion or two, Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail can give the approval. In deals involving no more than a mere $500 million, SAMA Governor Quraishi is empowered to act entirely...
...premium prices that the Saudis and other OPEC members command for their oil have pushed many developing nations into a state of destitution. The mountain of Third World debt now exceeds $370 billion, but the Saudis have used only a small fraction of their available revenues for foreign aid and low-interest loans. Demands are thus increasing that the Saudis do more to help...
Sanders' title will be executive vice president for science and administration, and he will be the second-in-command of Squibb International's largest division, E.R. Squibb and Sons pharmaceuticals Rabin said...
...results include: The XM-1 tank, which costs, in constant dollars, seven times as much as the Sherman tank of World War II, yet whose turbine engines cannot tolerate dust; the command-control-communications-intelligence network, designed to control military maeuvers from a central point, which works, under ideal conditions, 38 per cent of the time; the TOW missile, launched by a soldier, which demands that he stand absolutely still in the middle of a battlefield for ten seconds while guiding his warhead at a far-off tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy...