Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poetry is not much read today. Perhaps almost no one's is. Dickey was a celebrity once, in the 1960s, when poets (e.g., Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg) could still command a modest fame. In 1966 Dickey won the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice. Readers made a connection between Vietnam and his poem The Firebombing, which recorded an ex-pilot's agony as, 20 years after World War II, he meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue...
...Paris' re-entry into NATO came with a condition: that the organization "Europeanize" its command structure. Last summer Chirac insisted that the alliance's southern command in Naples, which includes the U.S. Sixth Fleet, be assigned to a European officer instead of the traditional American admiral. Washington said no way, Chirac dug in his heels, and the honeymoon was over. Suddenly the U.S. and France seemed to be butting heads all over the globe. Cases in point...
Some at the Citadel insist they were monitoring the progress of the young women. Regimental Commander Bryant Butler says he takes what happened "very personally." The highest-ranking student, Butler spent hours working on the assimilation plan, which included a female-friendly chain of command to help with any concerns. According to Butler, Messer and Mentavlos did apparently use those channels--but then stopped. When a female supervisor checked in with them right before Thanksgiving and asked them if they had been experiencing any problems, they replied no, both Poole and Butler claim. "I don't understand...
...about $70,000. A torrid area: computer artists and animators for Hollywood films along the lines of Twister and Toy Story; they can easily earn $80,000 or more a year. Also topping the most-wanted lists are programmers skilled in cutting-edge languages like Java, who can command $70,000 a year to start...
Scott retired from his post as Commander of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command last September, where he was responsible for training, recruiting and employing the nation's special operations forces...