Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAMPOON obviously knew People prose intimately, for the parody's command of its style is masterful. The writing appears to require no thought either to read or write; it glides along effortlessly, often hilarious in its sprightliness. On a six-year-old genius: "Graduating from Harvard at five, the swaddling-swathed summa soon had six degrees safely tucked away under his rompers." In a review of a new Beethoven performance: "Here is another album demonstrating that Beethoven is anything but ready to roll over...
...avoid being accused of meddling in Greece's internal politics, the U.S. has remained studiously neutral. But NATO'S commanders are not so circumspect. Says an officer assigned to the Southern Command: "If Papandreou does what he's said he's going to do, it could be a considerable threat." Supporters of the present government are hoping that the forceful Papandreou may have peaked too soon...
Fast Track [Highways and Heroism]--It's still the same game in True Confessions, though now DeNiro is not only in complete command of himself as a Catholic careerist, but he's even distinguished, a commanding member of the Establishment...
Steven Miller, assistant director of the Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs and editor of International Security, said one pressing problem in nuclear defense communications is keeping military communications, command, and control (referred to as "c-cubed" by experts) safe from attack...
Seventeen months ago, Granville led the lemmings of Wall Street into a 30-point gain in a single day with an order to buy stocks. Then in January he set off a 23.80-point drop in one trading day with the command "sell everything." Even though stocks continued generally up for nearly five months after that before they started their current down phase, Granville insisted that he had the magic formula for Wall Street...