Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close Navy associate of Poindexter, who the newspaper did not identify, said Poindexter in December told him his actions followed "the chain of command...
...invited John Kenneth Galbraith over to my room for a conversation that has nothing to do with this column, but it will allow me to drop his name and suggest that even in the lowly office of Ibis, I command enough respect to have world-famous ecnomists sprinting to my house in their underwear...
...Administration has committed to its war on illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
...does not require recipients to do anything in exchange for their benefits. Indeed, as presently administered, AFDC actively discourages work, in keeping with the bygone society of its origin, which simply assumed that most women would devote themselves to housekeeping and child rearing. Says Moynihan: "AFDC is unable to command stable political support. A program that was designed to pay mothers to stay at home with their children cannot succeed when we now observe most mothers going out to work...
...Israel's first nighttime air attack in about two years. The Israeli command said its pilots reported accurate hits and returned safely to base...