Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major factors are in Clinton's favor. Politicians almost unanimously agree that public sentiment so strongly favors some kind of health-care reform that many Congress members dare not run for re-election in 1994 without having voted to enact any. And if Clinton's plan has yet to command a majority, the opposition has not yet coalesced behind any alternative. Those proposed run the gamut from a conservative Republicans' bill that would merely provide tax credits for people buying health insurance, to the liberal Democrats' single- payer plan; neither has a chance of passing...
Aristide supporters charge that such faith reflects long and continuing relations between Haiti's top commanders and their U.S. counterparts. They claim that Cedras and Francois both trained at Fort Benning, Georgia. Although U.S. officials deny connections between the CIA and the Cedras-Francois axis, it is hardly a secret that the CIA often recruits foreign soldiers training under U.S. command for intelligence duties in their home countries...
While it is unclear if the U.S. strategy is to divide and conquer or divide and coax, Haiti's junta is prepared either way. Boasts a member of the high command: "We can play with that nicely." Indeed, Haiti's strongmen appear to enjoy "playing" with the Clinton brigades. A Cedras adviser claims that when the military agreed to negotiate with Aristide at Governors Island in New York last July, "the whole thing was a smokescreen." He continues, "We wanted to get the sanctions lifted. That's why we went along. But we never had any intention of really agreeing...
...sick once in college because of alcohol and never got sick again. She just stops after one or two drinks," Musselman said. "I can't imagine how she just stops. I'm jealous. When I had a drink or two or three, I felt that I was in complete command...
Buford said a fire command post had been set up at an elementary school one block from his house, but that fire had not reached his house...