Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to sell the office buildings follows an announcement in March that the U.S. Navy's Sea Systems Command division, the buildings' principal tenant, plans to move out of Crystal city. The navy leases about 85 percent of the two 12-story buildings for slightly more than $20 million annually...
...cynic would argue that this is proof that money is more important than democracy; an idealist that we simply value voting too much to let it denigrate into another keyboard command on the computer; a realist would say Americans are simply technological morons...
...cannot do this work without being at the point of tension," Epps says. "I have to do that for the College. I have to take the risk." Chain of Command The bureaucracy within the College's race relations hierarchy has been steadily developing for the past tow years. This fall, however, Dean of Students Archile C. Epps III has taken on most of the authority for race relations policy, reshaping the committees under his charge...
Because TeX was largely the effort of a single individual, less attention has been paid to its user interface, or "friendliness," than a casual user might like. In fact, most users of TeX use it on the UNIX operating system, a command line-oriented user environment you may already be familiar with from using the workstations in the basement of Science Center...
...more than 600 basic commands. Most of them are named, sometimes abbreviated, after their functions. For example, the command "\centerline" centers the line of text that follows it. "\bf" means the words should be typeset in bold face like this...