Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saudi Arabia said Monday it would support a U.S. attack on Iraq if diplomacy fails, but, according to high-placed Saudi sources, it hasn't agreed to be a staging ground for the attack ? and that, at least, is good news for Saddam. The lack of a ground-based command-and-control structure, including airstrips and vast support facilities, would affect the scale and scope of an American assault. "If it's a carrier-based attack they won't be able to deliver much firepower," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "Not having any ground-based assets forces...
...again stopped in midair and neither the cadet nor the instructor could restart it. Luckily, the plane was over the academy runway and landed safely. "We want an effective flight-screening program, but a safe one," says General Lloyd Newton, head of the service's Air Education and Training Command in San Antonio, Texas, who ordered the grounding. "We've certainly bumped into some rough spots with this aircraft, but that doesn't mean it's a bad aircraft...
That change of fortune reflects the revolution that Chenault and CEO Harvey Golub have quietly wrought at American Express (1996 revenues: $16.2 billion). Golub, 58, took command in 1993 after directors dumped James Robinson III for turning the company into an unwieldy financial supermarket. Golub promptly lopped off the brokerage, investment-banking and life-insurance units that Robinson had assembled, leaving American Express focused on credit cards, travel and financial services, including mutual funds. Golub, a sometimes abrasive native of Brooklyn, N.Y., initially slashed $2 billion out of a $13.4 billion cost structure, and has kept expenses in line with...
...wheel; this is no sensitive dad who does the laundry. This is Patton leading the Third Army. This is Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Disrupt his fantasy at your peril. "There is a real illusion of anonymity combined with potency because you have a machine you can command," says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University's Program for the Study of Violence. "Top it off with the stress of work and people perhaps feeling insecure there, or with troubles at home, and it can make for a dangerous combination...
...Crimson (7-5, 1-1 Ivy League) fell 57-53 on Monday night, a loss which sent shockwaves through a team that has come to view itself as the clear number two team vying with Princeton for command of the Ivy League...