Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the Administration is operating on a skeleton holiday crew, was unexpected. "It was a surprise even to people in the White House," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney.A top contender for CIA director: John Deutch, deputy defense secretary and the second-in-command at the Pentagon. Deutch "would probably be confirmed easily and has expressed interest in the job," says TIME Washington correspondent Doug Waller. The biggest challenge for the successor remains adapting the agency to a post-Cold War world, Waller adds...
...been turned in." On Saturday, Moscow issued a harsher threat: missile strikes against strategic targets in Grozny if the Chechens did not disarm. The rebels refused to blink. Said a spokesman: "When the bombing starts, we will first go to our shelters. When it is finished, the command will go out to our forces to defend the city against the Russian attack...
...dotted the city after the first daylight air raid in the civil war -- a sign that Russia is now pushing to end what has become a quagmire. But a speedy end to the fighting would come despite fierce Chechen resistance, overwhelming domestic opposition and turmoil in the Russian military command. Several Russian generals have disobeyed orders or sharply criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev's military strategy. (One field commander refused to advance on Grozny or fire on civilians.) Today, according to a Tass report denied by the government, Grachev dismissed three top generals, accepted the resignation of another and took...
...hasn't the widespread support of students to grant it legitimacy. It hasn't the power, even in its own little College constituency, to pass binding resolutions, to make forceful recommendations, to command the confidence of its constituents, and to build a history of truly beneficial policy on behalf of its students. It doesn't even have enough power for students to have a passing interest in it. In the last council elections, barely 20 percent of undergraduates voted. The council is powerless, and students know...
...fact, it is possible for a user's machine to become infected by a virus through MIME attachments. If you were to use the "view attachments" command in PINE and download to your computer a file attached to art e-mail, that file could conceivably cause damage to your stored files...