Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Clinton riding high, what happens from here on out? Discipline, Discipline, Discipline. The Clintonites have been studying Ronald Reagan's successful 1984 re-election effort. One lesson: Keep command and control in the White House the way chief of staff Jim Baker did it (deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes is overseeing things from the West Wing). Another lesson: Croon along with Ronnie's song of optimism (the effectiveness of that approach is underscored by candidate Steve Forbes' success). Every week for the next few months, Clinton plans to reprise themes from the State of the Union. This...
...American medic was court-martialed by the U.S. Army and convicted of disobeying a lawful order: refusing to accept foreign command on a U.N. operation. Specialist Michael New was given a bad-conduct discharge for refusing to join his unit in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. New, who claims the order was unconstitutional, plans to appeal...
...mines. But here's Pat Buchanan--a man whose campaign letterhead features a roster of CEOS--running around the country and bashing Big Business to sensational effect. The guardians of conservative p.c. are pummeling him as a traitor and a "left-winger" in every medium they command. Blue-collar people, in at least some settings, are embracing him as the great white hope--a sort of depigmented Jesse Jackson with a snarl...
WUERZBURG, GERMANY: Army medic Michael New was discharged for refusing to wear U.N. insignia on a peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. In a case that had captured the imagination of conservatives who opposed putting U.S. forces under U.N. command, New had argued that he had not taken any oath to serve under U.N. commanders. But the court said that New should be discharged because he refused to carry out a lawful order from his U.S. military commanders. "The bottom line for the military is that you can not pick and chose your orders," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...proof, doing without many standard programming tools that give developers flexibility but can lead to unpredictable results. Finally, it had to be secure, even in the hostile hacker- and virus-filled environment of the Internet. Before Java allows any line of code to be executed, it determines whether the command is a legal one, using powerful encryption to ensure that the program hasn't been tampered with...