Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
...quartz watch that would challenge the Japanese at the lower end of the market. The $35-to-$40 Swatch, which reduced by half the usual number of parts by building them directly into the casing on automated assembly lines, was an instant success, enabling the Swiss watchmaking industry to command 53% of the world market. The company has kept demand for the watches high by staying on the cutting edge of new designs, turning out some 140 new models each year plus limited-edition designer collections...
...they were no more than projections of the photographer's own dilemmas, Avedon's pictures would be less compelling than they are. His portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Samuel Beckett command attention because's Monroe's baffled abjection and Beckett's quiet endurance correspond to states of mind familiar enough to most people. And the affectless pictures of oil-rig workers and cowboys and drifters that Avedon made in the western U.S., a place that still holds some of its mythic power as a land of opportunity, are a powerful representation of everyone's worst fears of disappointment...
While Adams gained a thin veneer of respectability from his participation in electoral politics, he and his followers command attention mainly because of their links to the I.R.A. Yet Adams firmly denies being a member. "It's illegal," he says. "I could get 10 years. But I am at pains not to distance myself from them. Even if I did, no one will believe me, and besides, I accept that I have a responsibility to the same constituency." Catholics in Belfast stick together for protection and support; Adams was formed by the ethos of a community under siege. At least...
Walsh, his friends and his lawyer command a table by a window, where they pass the time talking and working on other business...