Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Perfection, as any website designer will tell you, is absolutely essential in HTML coding. Misplace a bracket, spell a command wrong, and the whole page could come crashing down. So when it came time to die, the 39 members of a mysterious San Diego cult went about it in the same precise manner they had conducted Higher Source, their web design business. The suicide plan was meticulously organized. Each member received a hand-written recipe with suicide instructions: take the package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink...
...Mobutu alone. This opinion was shared by Kagame's close personal friend, President Museveni in neighboring Uganda, an implacable foe of Mobutu's. So Museveni put Kagame in touch with his old friend and fellow bush fighter, Kabila. The two men cut a deal: in exchange for being given command over the 2,000 Zairian Tutsi soldiers, Kabila agreed to conduct a broadly based revolution aimed at toppling Mobutu from power...
...uprisings that spread north to overtake the capital of Tirana last week were outbursts of lawlessness more than any kind of movement, since the insurrection has no command. President Sali Berisha clung to office, but he could hardly cling to power. At one point Skender Gjinushi, an oppositionist who had just met with the President, remarked, "Berisha accepted that he has no national control. He has no army, no police...
...Will Win: Gooding. Overpaid Hollywood loves that a character can be charming, talented, outspoken, in love...and still command an $11 million contract...