Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles de Gaulle withdraws France's defense forces from NATO command to maintain national sovereignty but stays in the alliance...
Riefkohl, who is ranked above Terner, took early command of the contest, cruising to a 6-3 win in the opening set. About the only points that Terner got in that first stanza came from Riefkohl's mistakes. In the second set, with Riefkohl visibly tiring, the yardling reversed the margin of victory, and then hung on to take the third set and the match...
...Cambridge Common, where Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 delivered a traditional address. It was in Cambridge that Revere borrowed the horse that carried him to Lexington. In Cambridge Common, Minuteman and militia from around the Commonwealth camped, sealing the British in Boston. Gen. George Washington arrived to take command of the American troops--and within a year the starved-out British evacuated Boston...
...strongest centralized economic planning have fared the worst; those that have adopted some degree of private initiative have achieved the most impressive economic gains. Take the cases of neighboring African countries that have similar peoples, natural resources and other conditions: free-enterprising Kenya has surged, whereas Tanzania's command economy has slumped; the Ivory Coast is capitalist and prosperous, while neighboring Guinea is socialist and impoverished...
...market economies are doing so poorly, are the centrally directed command economies doing any better? No. Capitalism's primary rival, Communism, is afflicted by most of the same ailments, and more. Communist countries are encountering far more difficulty than the West in adapting to the age of economic anxiety. After substantial gains from low bases during the 1950s and early 1960s, progress in Communist economies has sharply slowed in recent years. Technology, innovation and productivity have fallen further behind most Western countries. Economic growth in the Soviet Union last year was about 2%, the lowest since the 1930s...