Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Green, an economist, will serve as second-in-command, helping Rudenstine with planning and finances across the University. The newest resident of the Mass. Hall central administration office will also try to foster academic collaboration among Harvard's ten faculties...
...feel like a shadow or zombie. To retrieve her personhood, she understandably takes a lover. Suddenly, she feels alive again. Simply negotiating the "lunacy of the logistics" as she outwits her husband and children makes the adulteress feel "at once frighteningly out of control and, strangely, very much in command...
...both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow had dropped its insistence that the 380-ship Black Sea Fleet, based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, was a "strategic force" that should fall under joint Commonwealth command...
Nonsense, replied Western diplomats in Yugoslavia. The Serb-dominated federal army left behind 80,000 Serb troops when it made a show of pulling out of Bosnia in May. Belgrade armed them and dispatched Mladic to command them. If Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic wants to call them back, the diplomats say, all he has to do is whistle...
...person, Milosevic is responsible for the bloodshed by his unyielding determination to see all Serbs united in one country carved from territory the communists left -- fairly or unfairly -- to other republics. He is the power behind Radovan Karadzic, the militant leader of Bosnia's Serbs, and he has effective command of the old Yugoslav army; he could cool their operations if he were so disposed. But, says a European Community diplomat who has dealt with Milosevic intensively, "nothing interests him but Serbian success, even if it means tens of thousands of dead and dispossessed...