Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost any Rickover whim, it appears, was the contractor's command. When Rickover, who wore cheap metal tie clasps, saw one that he liked better on the tie of a General Dynamics employee-even when it was gold-he simply reached over and made a quick trade...
...about it. CHEMTREC'S files contain information on 60,000 substances. Its communications lines can link fire fighters and company experts in transcontinental conference calls. For spills of unusually hazardous materials, such as cyanide, chlorine, vinyl chloride and liquefied petroleum gas, chemical manufacturers use CHEMTREC as a communications command center. Dispatchers will then notify the technical team closest to the spill...
...summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
...later, Blaize, who sported a new gray fedora on the way to the ceremony, was sworn in as Prime Minister at York House, Grenada's yellow brick, Georgian-style government building. He then thanked voters for "showing in such a massive way that they are willing to take command of their own affairs...
...price for an overnight shipment from $26.29 in 1981 to $19.36 this summer. Many of the rivals have copied Federal's formula. In 1981, Emery built a $60 million hub in Dayton and assembled a fleet of 67 planes. Airborne constructed its hub at an abandoned Strategic Air Command base in Wilmington, Ohio. The U.S. Postal Service has entered the field with its special $9.35 express mail service. In fiscal 1984 the USPS shipped some 41 million pieces of express mail...