Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close ties to the party's moderate wing and because he had served effec -tively as a White House liaison with Congress. Timmons has been running a successful lobbying operation in Washington that, along with work for other major cli ents, helped Chrysler get its loan guarantee. In command of the campaign's 20 regional directors and 50 state chairmen, Timmons will be responsible for allocating money to the states and coordinating grass-roots activities...
...Bertram, director of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies: "In the past the U.S. has been the undisputed leader, but the U.S. that emerged from the 1970s was no longer always willing to provide this leadership, and even when she tried, she was no longer able to command the respect of her allies...
Ever since they shouldered their way to power in the wake of President Park Chung Hee's assassination last October, South Korea's military strongmen have pressed a campaign of "purification" against corruption. Last week the Martial Law Command announced the results of a monthlong investigation that followed the sudden arrest often of the country's most prominent citizens. Nine of the ten, it was charged, had chalked up a total of $142.1 million in ill-gotten wealth through "abuse of power...
...National Institutes of Health: "Recombinant DNA work is going on in numerous labs. This would have gone on whatever the court decided." Chief Justice Burger himself acknowledged that a patent law "will not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides...
...Half Empty or Half Full? that the Soviets will actually increase production of energy by 2% to 3% a year through 1985 and possibly more in the years afterward. Most experts believe that the Soviet Union will eventually solve the difficult problems of extracting its reserves. In a Communist command economy, Soviet managers are able to bulldoze important national priority projects, like energy development, through normal roadblocks...