Word: commandered
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...detective in the narcotics division, but I'd taken the day off for the grand opening of my tattoo shop. After the second plane hit, I knew it was an attack. I drove to my precinct in Brooklyn, got dressed in my uniform, and waited for hours for a command to go down to the site...
...responded from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and arrived on the northeast side of the complex after the second plane had hit. I remember we got out of the car and started putting our equipment on. We were still getting our gear together to take to the command center right by Building Five when the south tower collapsed. We sought refuge in doorways and under vehicles to get out of the debris field. Then after the dust began to settle, we helped numerous people who were injured into buildings. We proceeded to the north tower to see if we could help people...
...have serious lung problems. I retired in 2002, but then came back to the department as a consultant. On Sept. 11 we'd been unable to communicate with the radios we had in the Trade Center because of all the steel and concrete. I invented a radio, the Command Post Radio, that's powerful enough to work in a high-rise or in the subway, but is still portable...
...very name Monaco carries about it the whiff of tuxedos, fast boats and ruinous expense - and all three will be in evidence at the Monaco Yacht Show, monacoyachtshow.org, to be held in the principality from Sept. 20-23. If you command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted...
...command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted to see you. If your means are more constrained, no matter: you can still gawp at the stunning craft on display. More than 90 of the most luxurious yachts in the world - some as long as 90 m - will be moored in a "floating exhibition" at Port Hercule. But be warned...