Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Geneen seemed to think that selling anything that he originally purchased represented a slap in the face." Some Wall Streeters believe it was not until Geneen left the board in May 1983 that Araskog, a West Point graduate who grew up on a Minnesota farm, could assume full command. The clearest signal that he was committed to major divestitures came last August, when ITT sold Continental Baking, which makes Wonder bread and Twinkies, to Ralston Purina for $475 million...
...amazing young man, but he's not amazed with himself. Everything Dan does just seems to fit him. Frankly, we haven't been questioning too many things about him. Last year, when he was 22, the coaches didn't sit around worrying how he was managing to command the huddle or the offense. Nothing he has done has seemed out of character or against his nature. 'You're not ready for this, Dan.' 'You can't do that, Dan, it's only your second year.' We haven't used phrases like that too much...
...past three months, a six-man, six-woman jury in a federal courtroom in Manhattan has been listening to witnesses for General William Westmoreland, former commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, tell a very different story. By painstakingly unraveling The Uncounted Enemy, Westmoreland's principal attorney, Dan Burt, is trying to convince the jury that the only public deception was by CBS, not by Westmoreland and the high command in Saigon. Last Tuesday, Westmoreland rested his case in his $120 million libel suit against the network. CBS Lawyer David Boies immediately began the arduous process of piecing the documentary...
...Most of you attending this historic Institution will have a world of opportunity at your command. Many of you will in a matter of years be able to afford cars and clothes and things of materialistic value, but what about your values? As doctors, you must choose public health over private wealth. As lawyers you must choose the pursuit of justice over the political pursuit of judgeship. As teachers, you must teach for life, not just for a living. Our values will determine our value. You must measure your character, not by the size of your car, but rather...
There was some speculation last fall that Ogarkov might have taken over command of the western forces of the Warsaw Pact or that he had been appointed head of the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff in Moscow. The obituary, however, placed his name alongside those of the chiefs of the Main Political Directorate of the Armed Forces, which oversees the Communist Party's control over the military. If Ogarkov has indeed become a sort of political commissar, it would be an ironic appointment for a career officer with a reputation for being at odds with the party's views...