Word: commander
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...Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking is the wrong medicine," Gorbachev said during the meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation. But in the same speech he blamed "inertia and old-style methods of management through command and pressure" for failures in the economy. In other words, the fault lay with both sides, and he was a clear-eyed St. George prepared to slay the dragons of right and left. Asked Gorbachev: "What should we do in the face of this situation? Above all, we should not panic...
Arafat can claim little responsibility for the eruption of anger in the occupied territories last December. It took several weeks for the P.L.O. to align itself with the intifadeh's loose-knit command. To this day, the bulk of intifadeh authority resides with local popular committees. Still, the intifadeh's young leaders recognize the P.L.O.'s role as a touchstone for Palestinians who live both inside and outside the occupied territories. The uprising has also improved the P.L.O.'s image. For years, violence and terror were important weapons in the campaign for independence. The intifadeh has changed perceptions, painting...
...Taurus; a version of the Aerostar van that will stretch 15 in. longer than the current 14 1/2-ft. model; and by 1991 a compact four-wheel-drive van designed by Nissan and made by Ford to compete with Chrysler's line of Voyagers and Caravans, which now command 49% of the U.S. minivan market...
Convictions about the impossibility of education notwithstanding, though, what budding lawyers are doing at Harvard Law School is patently obvious. In a world where education in the traditional sense of liberation from prejudice had no meaning, the Harvard name might still inspire enough respect and command enough money to justify tuition and time in Cambridge...
...fortunately, the products of an education more idealistic and high-minded. It stresses method and approach rather than command of specific subjects and particular books; it is at once more humble and more demanding. Such a philosophy is the keystone of Harvard's curriculum, not only of the Core curriculum, but of the tutorial program as well...