Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaragua early this year, and for failing to question Casey on references he made to the mining when he did meet with them twice in March. (The House Intelligence Committee was briefed on Jan. 31.) Still, Moynihan and others contend that Casey, at minimum, did not fulfill the command of the 1980 law that he apprise the committees of even "any significant anticipated intelligence activity." The mining had begun about a month before the House Intelligence Committee briefing. Indeed, raids on Puerto Sandino last Sept. 8 and on the oil-storage tanks at Corinto on Oct. 10 were carried...
Captains of industry have it. So do great generals and successful politicians. People with executive presence exhibit a purposeful style and confident mannerisms that give the impression of control. When they walk into a crowded room, they naturally command the respect and attention of those around them. That intangible quality is in demand by business people who want every advantage in climbing the ladder to success...
...list, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post, were selected by TIME 20 years ago. Among the credentials that TIME took into account: imaginative staff coverage of regional, national and foreign issues; liveliness in writing, layout and graphics; national impact achieved through general enterprise, command of some particular field of coverage or a track record of training top-rank younger journalists...
...best papers, the Post faces the prospect over the next several years of replacing the man who guided it to its present eminence. Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, 62, has run the Post since 1965 and has given it much of its personality. The eventual change of command may relieve the paper of some of its combative impetuosity. With luck, it will retain its vivacity and panache...
...with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that of the instructor, who conveniently falls in love with the granddaughter and forgets Fitzgerald. Worth is, as ever and always, in supreme command of the stage, and Channing and Daniels are both capable performers. John Tillinger's direction is competent and Designer Oliver Smith's Manhattan town house is lovely. The problem here is the playwright, who should have followed the master's plan...