Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Republicans and reporters speculated that Secretary of State James Baker, who is expected next month to assume joint command of the Bush campaign and White House -- and who opposed the choice of Quayle in 1988 -- wants him replaced. Officials friendly with Baker, however, deny this, explaining that Baker's own presidential ambitions would not be served if one of his potential rivals in 1996 -- say, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney -- were elevated to the vice presidency...
...Secretary and held up thousands of promotions. Now two top admirals have been hooked -- for other incidents. Vice Admiral Jerry Tuttle, 57, named to head the Navy's air arm, was denied promotion for sexist jokes in a newsletter he writes. Rear Admiral Joseph Prueher, 49, named to take command of the Third Fleet, was gigged for a 1989 episode at Annapolis, where he was the No. 2 man, when male midshipmen handcuffed a female classmate to a urinal...
...guard. They are not accustomed to Israel's setting the pace for substantive talks. They must now take seriously Rabin's campaign promise to complete the arrangements for Palestinian autonomy in nine months, and they are not ready. They lack a coherent negotiating strategy, a clear chain of command, qualified technical advisers, even a unified set of position papers. "We are a bunch of academics and politicians who are not qualified to run technical negotiations," admits a team member. Meanwhile, the Palestinians want Rabin to flesh out exactly what kind of autonomy he has in mind. Last week he insisted...
...whiz phase to the relentless scrutiny that new candidates always suffer. I've hired all you guys, Perot complained last month, and now I'm getting a lousy press. His way of dealing with that was to carp about criticism and Republican "dirty tricks" rather than take initiatives that command positive attention. In early July, with the campaign sagging, Jordan confronted Perot. It isn't working, the veteran told the novice. Unless you let us make some basic changes, I'll quit. Perot wished Jordan well and said he should leave anytime he wished. Outbluffed, Jordan retreated to his office...
...Iberia was on the verge of collapse. Thus when the Arabs looked across the Mediterranean, they saw a vast territory spotted with squabbling factions -- Christians, Jews, Visigoths -- separated from Africa by a small strait and ripe for conquest. In 711 a mixed force of Arabs and Berbers under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr crossed the sea and smashed through the patchy Visigothic resistance; within 50 years most of Spain, except for the pockets of Castile and Catalonia in the north, had become al-Andalus, the farthest western expansion of a vast Muslim empire run by the Abbasid dynasty from...