Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party and as advocates of accommodation, compromise had no place on either team's lineup card. When the season began, the owners wanted a salary cap. Not surprisingly, the players wanted the free market to continue to determine whether a banjo hitter batting .220 with a good glove could command $1.5 million for part-time work. When the season was terminated, nothing had changed...
...months or weeks leading up to the elections. But notwithstanding the President's bind, he has set a dangerous precedent by making former President Carter his de facto chief diplomat. Carter currently holds neither elected office nor appointed post. He is not part of an official chain of command in which he can be held accountable for any of his decisions...
...aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with 70 helicopters, which can more easily land troops in Haiti. By late this week, the Ike and the U.S.S. Mount Whitney, which will serve as the invasion's command vessel, will leave for the Caribbean. Both ships should be in place by early next week...
...majority of Cubans, both for and against Castro, fear he cannot lead them out of the current economic crisis. Some of the party faithful, who have always claimed Fidel enjoyed universal support, now acknowledge he may command the allegiance of only half the populace. Reformers are exasperated -- and worried -- by Castro's slow pace of change since he legalized the dollar a year ago. "The problem is not just food shortages," says a historian still loyal to socialism and Fidel. "The government has to redesign the whole system. If we don't reform and the U.S. blockade remains, the only...
Federal investigators said engine parts from Flight 427 indicate a potential cause of the accident: one or more of the components called "actuators," which help slow the plane's movement, may have been set off without a command from the cockpit. That action could have inappropriately reversed the thrust of the engines, causing the plane to roll off into a dive. The actuators are normally deployed to slow a plane down only after landing. USAir records show a flight crew reported problems with the plane's reverse thrust two and a half months earlier...