Word: commander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City police captain Thomas Lawrence looks as if he's been out in the sun too long. It's just past 7 on the third morning of the new year, and Lawrence, who runs the 10th Precinct in Midtown Manhattan, is standing on a podium in the command control center at police headquarters--the "war room." His face is bright red and a little clammy. His body is wired up tight. He is surrounded by sheaves of statistics, screens filled with computerized maps and charts and N.Y.P.D. bosses, who, amazingly, seem to know as much about crime...
...were growing tired of going along with the Speaker; they were suffering, as majority leader Dick Armey put it, from "greater-good fatigue." They drew the line that night, after 26 hours of floor debate, as the House moved toward a vote on the spending bill. Newt's high command knew it didn't look good. By majority whip Tom DeLay's count, the Republican leadership had started the day fully 80 votes short of a majority; now, with precious time ticking away, Gingrich still needed at least 10 votes...
...confronted the Speaker at a meeting of the high command: "Where is it in stone that we have to balance the budget in seven years?" The Speaker replied, "Let's put it to a vote. Who wants to put it in stone?" Everyone in the room raised his hand--except Kasich. Senate Republicans, though queasy at the idea, eventually accepted the goal as well, and the script for the rest of 1995 was written...
...peace enforcers serving under NATO command, the French, British, American and other members of the 60,000-strong international implementation force--32 countries in all are definitely participating in Operation Joint Endeavor--will carry heavy weapons and be authorized to shoot not only if they come under fire but even if they are just threatened. American G.I.s specifically can fire if anyone points a gun at them in a menacing fashion. And the order to fire need not come down any chain of command. It can be given by a sergeant on the spot...
...that is going to be changed. Period. And Bachelet was called back to get that message. By now he has so much carpet between his teeth he won't eat for a year." After his tongue-lashing, Bachelet will most likely be sent back to Sarajevo, where he will command a NATO force of about 13,000 troops...