Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pearson, second in command at the company and a 1947 graduate of the Business School, was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...year-old Jarryd, taking command at the ngt, elminated his Davis Cup leammate Henrik Sundstrom 6-4, 6-1, while Kriek beat back the challenge of young Aaron Krickstein...
From his first day in office, Duarte moved on all fronts. He proved an able lobbyist in Washington, charming a reluctant Congress into approving some $200 million in economic and military aid. He shuffled the command of El Salvador's security forces, long considered the breeding ground for the death squads, and watched the number of killings sink from 40 a month to less than a dozen. He assured businessmen, deeply suspicious of his left-leaning economic and social policies, that he would listen to them...
This is a daring strategy, especially since Lean is not a man who likes to explain what he is doing, much less call attention to his command of technique or to his personality or creative philosophy. He is assuredly an auteur, but not one who uses that status to gain entrée to the talk shows and the rest of celebrity's dubious glories. Nevertheless, Passage has been doing excellent business in the three cities where it has opened in the past two weeks?New York, Los Angeles and Toronto?and it is already being recognized as a major achievement...
...Iranian complicity in the crime and whether the U.S. could, or should, take retaliatory measures. Secretary of State George Shultz called on the U.S. to pursue an "active defense" against terrorism. Said Shultz: "I think strong action, if we can identify [that action] precisely and execute it successfully, will command broad public support." Once the two American survivors, Businessman John Costa, 50, of New York City and Auditor Charles Kapar, 57, of Arlington, Va., were out of Tehran, the White House issued a toughly worded statement, charging that Iran had "clearly encouraged extreme behavior by the hijackers...