Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crunch for sections leaders with expertise also means that most graduate students at Harvard are tapped to teach courses. Some--who might not otherwise lead sections because of poor command of English--are asked to teach because there is no one else, or they may seek section jobs in order to subsidize their tuition...
...Doesn't Syria's sponsorship of organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ((P.F.L.P.-G.C.)), which is suspected in the Pan Am bombing, hurt your image around the world...
Despite persistent rumors that it might attempt a coup, the military has shown no desire to end nine years of civilian rule. But Peruvian society is on the verge of polarization between the extreme left and right. Last July marked the appearance of the Rodrigo Franco Command, a death squad said to be made up of dissident APRA Party members. The group has assassinated several leftists and critics of the government and has threatened to kill many more...
...relatives of the Flight 103 victims know only too well, even those warnings were not the first. In October, West German police arrested a member of a Syrian-backed guerrilla group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and discovered a Toshiba Boombeat Model 453 radio- cassette player fitted with explosives and a barometric device designed to explode at high altitudes. In the first week of November, the West Germans held a conference in Wiesbaden to distribute information about the construction of the bomb. Security specialists from Britain and the rest of Europe attended...
Berlin, 51, admitted that he had received a bribe for supplying inside information on contracts. He had been a supervisory electronics engineer and branch head of the ship systems engineering section at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in Arlington...