Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hearing Layton issue a stiff command, Tucker said the director is not nearly so harsh as the first-night audience, Dare County citizens all. "The county is the toughest audience we have to play to. They talk during the performance until they hear a change. They don't care if your feelings are hurt...
Some university employees still going about their campus business have been insulted by a shrill L.A.O.O.C. command not to speak to any athlete "even if he or she initiates the conversation...
...last week Ferraro got a new set of campaign advisers to interpret the results. Campaign Manager Sasso was an aide to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis; Anne Wexler, a White House advisor to Jimmy Carter, will be Ferraro's senior political counselor. Along with Mondale's high command, Ferraro's staff will decide how she can campaign most effectively and keep the popular good will from fading. Ferraro also must get her positions in line with those of her running mate; already she has deferred to Mondale's opposition to tuition tax credits for parents of private...
Conspicuously absent from the ceremonies was former ARDE Chief Edén Pastora Gómez. Five days before the Panama meeting, Pastora was relieved of his command on the southern front and replaced by Fernando ("El Negro") Chamorro Rapoccioli, a military officer aligned with the ARDE. Pastora had opposed the merger plan on the ground that the F.D.N. was led by former National Guard officers who had supported deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Pastora has vowed to continue his war against the Sandinistas with his own faction, the Sandino Revolutionary Front...
...That big hole in the Atlantis condominium, for instance, not only serves the residents as a delightfully dramatic patio, it also serves the developers. Under Miami's zoning regulations they were able to add the apartments that were cut out to the top of the building, where they command a better view and higher prices. The blue grid on the south side of the building adds not only color but also shade, in the manner of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleil, or sun baffle. "If you try to be different," says Fort-Brescia, "be sure that...