Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born mother Kaori last year by announcing that he did not want her to speak her native tongue when his schoolmates came to visit at their Culver City, Calif., home. "All his friends are American, and in his concept of himself he is American," sighs Kaori. The parents' poor command of English can prove awkward. Children are pressed into service for their immigrant parents in all kinds of circumstances: when the electric company sends a dunning notice, the landlord needs a lease signed, a policeman needs information...
Padilla, a genial, garrulous man of 53, first came to the U.S. in the '50s to escape the oppression of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of the day. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959, Padilla returned home and put himself at the command of the new regime, which sent him to London and Moscow as a correspondent for Prensa Latina, the government press agency. Gradually he became disenchanted; he saw the future of his country in the repressive atmosphere of the East bloc. Poems such as this reflected his unhappy feelings...
Sculley now seems in clear command. After heated discussions with Jobs, Sculley persuaded the board to relegate Apple's co-founder to the murky role of "global visionary," as one analyst put it. Jobs lost his day-to-day duties, a change that some say came none too soon. "Jobs is too much out in the ozone," says Joseph Levy, an analyst for International Data...
...book she seems the same at first, a wan little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy...
Although several elite brigades of counterinsurgency forces have engaged the contras with devastating effect, the government has not been able to move in for the kill. There are a number of reasons. Despite the assistance of several thousand Cuban military advisers, the Nicaraguan army suffers from "poor command and control," according to a U.S. military expert. Moreover, many Sandinista commanders prefer to stand off and lob rockets and shells rather than close with the enemy. Training is also slipshod: Nicaraguan draftees commonly enter the field after only two or three days of preparation...