Word: commandeer
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...says the Inter-Group council would also act as "an official channel of command with the U.C. [Student groups] will be able to influence U.C. policy...
...beaten face. He said he was one of 150 Christian security guards who had been paid $5 and trucked in to the area the previous night "to stir up the masses" after a minor dispute over an illegal gambling center. He was not sure who was in ultimate command of the security guards. When they broke a window of the local mosque, the Muslim neighborhood armed itself and began hunting down Christians...
...voice network has an important job, the General Accounting Office pointed out in a report released last week. It's designed "to enable commanders to discuss whether a ballistic-missile launch threatens North America and, if so, to determine the appropriate retaliatory response." But, like your first cell phone, the system is a bit clunky. The GAO says recent tests show that "the National Command Authorities and the chief military commanders would be unable to communicate by voice in a timely and intelligible manner...
...drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker. Why these crusaders, and the subjects they exposed, did not command more attention in the mainstream business press is debatable--but surely the clout of corporate advertisers had something to do with...
...envision a course Web page where the student will choose the citations on the Web page of the articles they want. That would generate a print command, charge their bursar bill and then they would stop by the nearest print center to pick that up," says James S. Lawrence, custom publishing manager at the Cornell Campus Store...