Word: commandeering
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...Industry analysts say it may take several years before prices fall into a marketplace sweet spot, where buyers see the advantages of flat-screen TVs as worth the premium they command compared with conventional boob tubes. But competitive forces are already in play that could make that day come sooner rather than later. The prospect of hundreds of millions of TV viewers dumping their old sets and going flat has drawn the world's most innovative consumer electronics companies into the market, among them Sony of Japan and Samsung of South Korea. At the same time, manufacturers are pushing...
Good Day. That’s what Guttentag means in German and that’s what is embroidered in neat block letters on Lisa Guttentag’s blue L.L. Bean backpack. It’s unclear if it’s an affirmation or a command. But either way, Guttentag is having a good day and wants everyone else to have one, too. She’s not really supposed to be here right now. At least, on June 12, 2000, when her van was hit by a tractor trailer, no one thought she would be here...
...Watch for models that had a limited production run, like the '65-'67 AC Shelby Cobra 427, which tend to be worth more. Convertibles also command higher prices. As the saying goes, "The price goes up if the top comes down...
...even as arms inspectors cruise pretty much where they want inside Iraq, the U.S. military is setting itself up all around the perimeter. Diplomats went to Turkey to negotiate for basing rights and got a half-yes. Chief of the U.S. Central Command, General Tommy Franks, flew to his forward command center in Qatar to play war games that could turn into combat overnight. An armada of a dozen ships steamed off to possible war stations, and Pentagon planners prepared to call up a first batch of reserves. One way or another, the U.S. insists, Saddam is going...
...You’ve just finished your exams, and you’re rather pudgy around the middle,” he says. “And the officers yell, ‘300 push-ups!’” Faced with a rigid command structure, Myat San says, the young men learn to obey their intimidating physical training instructors (“the gods of the island”) and to complain only on their own time...