Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore, the complicated jargon of the VAX system so hastily memorized by frantic freshmen for the test is rarely even applicable to future use. Detailed command memorization obscures the underlying need for programming skills that students can apply to future encounters with technology. The VAX system, which connects all terminals to one main computer, frequently falls victim to system failures which halt the already rushed testing sessions and inconvenience test takers and graders...
Sheriff Vaughn Killeen, leading the manhunt from a Boise command center, was unimpressed by Dallas' folk-hero image, garnished by two books and likely to be embellished in a movie that had been planned before his escape. Scoffed the sheriff: "The only difference between Dallas and other escapees is that he rides a horse and the others drive...
...empt a growing congressional clamor for reform of the Pentagon, President Reagan last week endorsed a significant reorganization of the Pentagon's high command. The package he accepted was proposed by a blue-ribbon panel led by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, which was set up in the wake of scandals over military procurement. The most important recommendations: to strengthen the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the ten worldwide theater commanders. By enhancing their authority, the Packard panel hoped to overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs and execution...
During his confinement, Kim's message was taken up by Kim Young Sam, 58, a former presidential rival. Though a polished and personable campaigner, the younger Kim seems less charismatic and shrewd than Kim Dae Jung and, having % suffered less at the hands of the government, does not command such public sympathy. As a protest against his colleague's political banning, he too refused for a long time to join the N.K.D.P. With both Kims working behind the scenes, the party fell into the less commanding hands...
...women also displayed their command of pantomime in some of the humorous numbers. Dressed in colorful costumes from the '20s, they lifted their legs effortlessly into arabesques. The motion does not stop as the women join their partners in a finale of lunges, head rolls and turns with their arms carving angular shapes in the air. This breathless scene ended as a bell rings and a train whistle blows in the distance...