Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheap rides for consumers has inspired a dozen airline mergers in which rabble-rousers like People Express have been swallowed up. The six largest carriers, which controlled 76% of the U.S. market in 1978, now have about 81% and are expected to get 90% by 1990. Large combined airlines command so much market share at some airports that the carriers may be tempted to raise prices with virtual impunity. At least three carriers control more than 80% of the business in their main hubs: Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, TWA in St. Louis and USAir in Pittsburgh...
...framers, determined never to give one man the authority of the European kings of their day to commit the nation to battle, gave Congress sole power to declare war. But they recognized that unity of command was essential, and so made the President Commander in Chief, thus giving him at least potential authority to order troops into situations where war might become inevitable. As early as 1801, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were disputing the division of power. President Jefferson told Congress that without a declaration of war, he could order only defensive action, even against enemy attack. No, said...
...than Jefferson did. Congress has declared war only five times, embroiling the U.S. in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II. Even in the 19th century, declared wars were far outnumbered by military actions begun at a President's command...
...spring Cat Nguyen was 16, an honors student at West Jefferson High School, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, and an editor of a soon-to-be mimeographed school paper called Your Side. Five years before that she had reached this country from Viet Nam, with no command of English. Having come so far so quickly, she thought the world was at her ! feet -- until Principal Eldon Orgeron saw the paper and banned...
...hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded as a usurper. In 1980 Chun was among those in the South Korean high command who ordered heavily armed troops to quell a popular uprising in the city of Kwangju, resulting in at least 180 deaths. He has been blamed for, though he was not personally involved in, a series of financial scandals, including several that implicated members of his family. "Because Chun lacked legitimacy...