Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure looks that way. Pentagon officials say most of the combat diaries of significant events kept by the U.S. Central Command at General Schwarzkopf's headquarters--classified documents, no less--are missing, including those of the eight-day span during which U.S. troops destroyed the chemical-weapons stockpiles at Kamisiyah. (The logs could be reconstructed from the 30 million documents written by individual units under Schwarzkopf's command, but that would take years.) In the meantime, the Pentagon's acknowledgment that U.S. troops may have been exposed came only under pressure: the June 21 Kamisiyah announcement, for example, was made...
...described himself as a partisan "pit bull," and once performed a re-enactment of Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into a "headlike object" in his own yard. But the G.O.P. Congressman from Indianapolis insists he wants to make a fresh start in January, when he will take command of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the panel that does most of the investigating when the White House is accused of wrongdoing. Burton, 58, promises he will be able to assume the mantle of sober, judicious leadership as committee chairman. "Just give me a chance...
Applying their purchasing muscle to everything from gurneys to latex gloves, the large outfits are jolting a sleepy industry. At AMR's command center atop an Aurora high-rise, five dispatchers hunched in front of consoles track 60 ambulances with the aid of satellites. In Oregon, where the firm also has a lock on most of the nonemergency transport business, AMR last year added Kaiser's 343,000 members to its client base, reflecting that industry's consolidation too. Boasts chief operating officer George DeHuff, "Big providers can see the benefits of dealing with...
...sales of $600 million in 1985 before their popularity waned at decade's end. Now marketed by Mattel, the Kids, which sell for about $30, are back--and more lifelike than ever. Some are able to eat, sneeze and even hiccup. But hold on to the 1978 originals, which command "re-adoption fees" of up to $25,000 from collectors...
...nationally ranked marathoner to provide them with enough exercise, and how difficult it is for even a skilled veterinarian to tell whether a puppy is unable to hear (one Dalmatian in four is born deaf) or is simply uninterested in hearing anything that sounds at all like a command. At the end of this prolonged put-down, the interviewer pointed out that despite everything, the authority did have a Dalmatian, or perhaps even more than one Dalmatian, herself...