Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original post at the White House was staff secretary, a job that involves managing the flow of paperwork leading to the President, thus forcing decisions and conferring enormous power. He was hired for his command of policy. Says brother Tony: "John is the only person in Washington who knows everything there is to know about encryption and price supports, dairy farming and the FBI." But the peculiar nature of the Clinton presidency quickly demanded another type of talent, something not mentioned in a typical job description. Podesta's own description of it was "Secretary of S___." First, there...
...amazing experience to walk through the central galleries of this show where the masterpieces of his career are hung, the huge all-over paintings of 1948-50. How did an artist who looked so unpromising at first attain this clarity, strength and command of scale? Not easily, and it is very much to the show's credit that it includes failures and partial successes along with the works that incontestably come off. It makes you more alert to the risks Pollock took. There were no rules for what he was doing; the besetting danger was always overcongestion of the surface...
...found to have tipped off Bosnian Serbs about planned NATO action. "The Pentagon has had a really jaundiced view of the French for a long time," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. The U.S. has in the past flatly rejected French demands for control of NATO's Southern Command, which has put the process of France's integration into NATO on hold. "Now," says Sanction, "that process will go into the deep freeze...
...jumped in 1991 to McCaw Cellular, a $4.9 billion-debt laden Seattle firm that was trying to build a national cellular network. He was second in command to Craig McCaw when AT&T bought the company for $11.5 billion. Not ready to call it quits, Barksdale needed one last bite of the apple: he wanted to finally be top dog somewhere. That's why, when a headhunter called to see if he was interested in applying for a job as fourth man out at nearby Microsoft, he declined. And that's why, when Doerr called...
...there will be some very unhappy investors. "The driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building the $760 million re-creation of Paris. The idea now is to command better room rates, more on a par with resort or European vacation destinations, by offering comparable accommodations. A discounted room on the Strip now goes for $49 to $99. To sleep in Hilton's Paris will probably cost double that...