Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last year Jessica didn't feel she could command the circle," said Assistant Coach Donna Lee, who works specifically with the Crimson netminders. "Her game has matured a lot, and she has confidence in herself and the players in front...
...carried away topsoil," he said during an interview with TIME. While in the Kremlin, he confronted one horror story after another of skies blackened by smokestacks, rivers ruined by toxic wastes and fields flooded by ill- conceived dams. "Farmers rebelled against these outrages," he said, "but because of the command system, their revolt was not heard." Then came the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, which "was the final argument. All of us then understood the kind of monster we had created...
...long as he remains in command of the only sources of wealth in the country, Babangida will not be easily dislodged. Already some thoughtful Nigerians have suggested that the interim government, though a sham, should be given a chance to solve the country's manifold problems; to do otherwise would risk more bloodshed. Yet such a prudent course may only delay the day of reckoning, when Nigerians who dream of democracy will have to risk their lives to make it come true...
...four Weinstein children set up a command post at their father's East Side apartment. Reinforced by members of their close extended family and rotating teams of detectives, they spent hours analyzing the calls. A woman, whom police believe to be Leonor, conducted most of the phone negotiations in a fractured English that sometimes defied interpretation. But her references to "Mr. Harvey," a term used by some of the employees at Lord West, suggested that insiders were involved in the abduction. Police officials, fearing that it might jeopardize Weinstein's safety, held back from questioning workers at the factory...
...doing all it could, declared flatly, "It is in our national interest to prevent the strangulation of Sarajevo." In Brussels, the NATO allies worked out a list of Serbian military targets and completed arrangements on which air units would go into action and how the chain of command would operate. The allied air forces were waiting only for the order...