Word: commandeer
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...look at them is another question. The radical difference between the Internet and other mass media is that while anyone can make a bid for attention at http something or other, there is no central audience regularly tuning to channel 2 or 4 or 7 -- no easy way to command major market share. If websites were channels, there would be tens of millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what...
...chairman of a vaguely defined "Executive Committee." The deal fuels speculation that Lukashenko is seeking to use it to springboard him to the head of a restyled Soviet Union. But don't look for integration to go smoothly. In a recent interview, Lukashenko, a hearty proponent of Soviet-style command economics who harbors a deep suspicion of the West, announced that union with Russia would require Moscow to rethink the free market reforms that have won fat checks from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...
...difficulty was plain old inexperience. Netanyahu came into office almost wholly without practice in the real business of government. His energies in public life were spent crafting an image and smoothly making arguments for or against policies, but not formulating them. He never mastered strategy, only shifting tactics. In command of a telegenic appearance and a glib tongue, he figured his rhetoric could explain away his mistakes...
...have regularly rewritten their tactical manuals to keep up with the rapid technological advances of the past 25 years, but the Army has been slower to adapt. Now it is trying to make up for lost time. The two-week Mojave war game, which is testing an elaborate new command-and-control system and 72 new pieces of hardware, is the Army's biggest push yet to boot up, log on and march in the information revolution...
When the new systems work, they give soldiers far more information about where they are--and where the enemy is--than any fighting force in history has ever enjoyed. Data gathered by satellites, video-equipped drones and scouts sporting minicams are funneled to a command system and displayed as moving dots (blue ones for friendly forces, red for the enemy) on laptop computers in every vehicle as well as on giant TV screens at division headquarters beyond a nearby mountain range. "This gives us greater survivability and flexibility," explained Lieut. Colonel Mark French, who led the troops from the hatch...