Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tickets already sold to Olympic events. The asking price for a $200 seat at the opening and closing ceremonies, according to Los Angeles Ticket Agency Owner Larry Gold, had gone as high as $1,500 before the boycott. Now, says Gold, "the speculators won't be able to command the prices they wanted...
Crew-cut and trim at 54, Air Force Lieut. General Robert M. Bond had drawn the kind of duty that many aging fighter pilots would envy. As vice commander of the Air Force Systems Command, he regularly jetted away from his desk job at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to test-pilot experimental aircraft, some of them secret, adding steadily to the more than 5,000 hours of flight experience he had accumulated over 33 years. Friends expected Bond to announce his retirement this year. But on April 26 tragedy struck: an aircraft Bond was flying over the sprawling...
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is often depicted in the West as a volatile dictator, unloved and distrusted on the world stage but firmly in command of his people. That assessment may no longer be altogether true. While his diplomats in London were creating havoc before their expulsion from Britain late last month, reports were circulating in Libya that Gaddafi's troubles were mounting at home. According to Western residents and Libyans in Tripoli, he is less popular today with his 3.2 million countrymen than at any time since he seized power in 1969 from the aging...
...minutes' walk from one another, either on Wall Street or in midtown Manhattan. They operate with the secrecy of KGB agents and the cold nerves of hired gunslingers. In a matter of hours they can build up a corporate empire or cause a company to vanish. Their services command huge fees, yet they are among the least known men in American business...
...nibbling your earlobe," begins a typical come-on. Reply: "Not so hard!" Men, sporting such nicknames as "Conan the Librarian" and "Loverboy," outnumber women about 4 to 1, and anyone signing on as "Karen the Nympho" will be besieged with requests to TALK. This is the command that allows two users to exchange intimacies in private. Couples who hit it off have traded phone numbers, photographs and, on at least five occasions, wedding bands. Tiresome swains can be cut off with a keystroke...