Word: commandeer
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...simple: the law is absurd. Current rules permit poultry frozen hard as a bowling ball to be thawed at market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans nearly $1 billion annually...
...withheld approval of NATO airstrikes precisely because the Serbs have retaliated by taking U.N. hostages. At an Oval Office meeting today, White House advisers said they would ask a crucial, six-nation meeting Friday in London for unilateral permission tostep up NATO attackson the Serb positions and a new command structure that bypasses the U.N. The White House is also considering a European request to broaden the U.S. military commitment in Bosnia by transporting European U.N. troop reinforcements into the war zone. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says the White House has already voiced doubts that...
...intelligence from signal intercepts that surface-to-air missile sites were in the area O'Grady was flying over, but that information never got to his squadron. Three minutes before the shootdown, the National Security Agency knew sam radars were tracking O'Grady's F-16, but an allied command plane lacking key U.S. communications gear was unable to send him the warning...
Musically, Nagano has full command of a repertoire both wide and deep, moving with ease between the limpid grace of the classical period and the densest, most fearsome modern scores. His six-year tenure in Lyons has been marked both by important premieres (Debussy's unfinished Rodrigue et Chimene) and by alternative versions of such staples as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann; in Manchester he champions a group of young, modernist British composers. "I guess I take an awful lot of risks," says Nagano. "But what I'm trying to do is make music an active, living art form that...
...report. The report says intelligence photos revealed four hours before the plane was hit that Serb SA-6 missile battery had moved into the flyover area. Just minutes before impact, an American U-2 plane detected a brief burst of radar from the battery, revealing its position. But a command plane lacking crucial communications gear was unable to relay the message to O'Grady. Pentagon officials will present the report to Congress tomorrow...