Word: commandeer
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...market for child prostitutes has always been strong, especially in Asia. In India children command a price three times that of older women, in part because of a common belief that sex with a virgin or a child cures venereal disease. "Having sex with children provides a greater sexual thrill to many men," explains I.S. Gilada, secretary-general of the Bombay-based Indian Health Organization. "They find it more titillating, and it gives them an added sense of power." To feed the sex market, tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 are recruited in Bombay and other cities...
...does not threaten immediate retaliation if its market-opening goals are not met, but intends to "keep score" through such indicators as how much market share certain highly competitive foreign products and services command in the Japanese market. This approach showed success last year, when Japan grudgingly achieved a U.S.-set target of 20% market share for U.S. semiconductor exports, which dominated the market everywhere in the world except Japan...
...economy, education, jobs and housing. Says Anglo American Corp. labor negotiator Bobby Godsell: "We cannot achieve political and social stability without addressing the issue of poverty immediately." For the A.N.C., contact with business has made it warier of socialism's nostrums. "We have no intention of introducing a command economy," insists the A.N.C.'s chief economist, Tito Mboweni. "We want to improve productivity and the investment climate...
...jokingly, "or to lose us?" It wasn't a bad question. In an interview with TIME afterward, Gergen said he understood that there might be resentment. "If I had worked my tail off during the campaign and some guy who had worked for Republicans came into my chain of command, I would be anxious," he admits. "And it's as big a surprise for me as it is for them. Some of them think this is a liver transplant and I'm the liver...
Most union members question the ability of non-union companies to provide these benefits and still command prices significantly lower than the ones offered by the unions. But it firms can follow these guidelines union leaders, then they can live with the results...