Word: commandeer
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...organizations. Of course, the medical schools and law schools probably figured they didn't need to come to campus; students will come to them. And other organizations likely did not want to spend the money to come to a career fair--money that investment banking and consulting firms can command without a second thought...
...Congress is reluctant to support such a mission. Now the Administration is wrestling with another problem: what to do about Russian participation in the enforcement of a peace plan. "What is essential to us is that the international force be NATO led, with NATO rules of engagement, unity in command," insisted a senior Administration official. "Having said all that, we would very much like there to be non-NATO participation, including the Russians." The Russians are extremely concerned about being shut out of the Bosnia peace process, but they will not put their troops under NATO command. Holbrooke plans...
Officials at the Pentagon say the U.S. European Command is considering four options: the Russians would provide support troops or would handle the strategic lift functions; they would be given a specific area to police; their forces would be placed under the command of France, which is not part of NATO's military organization; or they would be put under the direction of whatever U.N. forces remain in Bosnia. None of these alternatives may be palatable to the Russians. This is a problem that will come only with peace, however, and in that sense, it will be a welcome...
...CAMERA. The "self-consciousness of everyone concerned" dragged out the case, in the view of Vincent Blasi, a Columbia University law professor and courtroom-cameras advocate. Uelmen agrees that the "entertainment medium" took command: "We had witnesses who treated their testimony like a gig. We had witnesses who were afraid to testify, who were afraid of what it would do to their reputations." But, adds Uelmen, "evidence was uncovered because of television coverage. All those photos of O.J. wearing gloves at football games, for example, came from volunteers.'' Of his own experience with TV trials, Midwest lawyer Stephen Jones, counsel...
...that led to the 1991 King beating, the crisis that forced the city's five-member police commission to replace Gates. Williams, who had been Philadelphia's chief, arrived in Los Angeles the next year promising to reform the department's "paramilitary mentality." But the outsider allowed Gates' entire command staff to stay on the job and failed to oust most of the 44 problem officers. He didn't remake the department, and he couldn't be the patrolman's pit bull, as Gates had been. So now he courts irrelevance...