Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further hardships, and each receives fair treatment from Springsteen's restrained guitar, wailing harmonica and moaning, groaning vocals. "Highway Patrolman" is a story narrated by one Sergeant Joe Roberts who maintains a close relationship to a no-good brother. Two other characters end their stories with a similar, pathetic command directed at no one in particular: "...deliver me from nowhere...
Exchanging command...
City officials, launching investigations into all of the charges, said they hope the recent return to duty of Acting Chief Anthony Paolillo will help to stabilize the department. Paolillo suffered a heart attack only months after taking command of the department...
Marcos has taken pains to demonstrate his own credibility as a man clearly in command. Briskly settling affairs at home before his departure, he has moved sharply against alleged opponents and buttressed his regime with a succession plan that already bears the marks of a dynasty. At his prodding, the Philippine legislature last week approved a law clarifying constitutional provisions for a 15-member Executive Committee that would succeed him in the event of his death or disability. Last month Marcos appointed his wife to a spot on the new Executive Committee, thus entrenching her as the most likely person...
...visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams, "I thought that if I wrote something that was attractive there must be something wrong...