Word: commandingly
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...broadcasts out of a Palm Beach, Fla. studio he has nicknamed "The Southern Command...
...triage between banks that are illiquid and undercapitalized but solvent and those that are insolvent. The insolvent ones you have to shut down. You need more aggressive credit creation by the government, or you have to force the banks to lend. We're in a war economy. You need command-economy allocation of credit to the real economy. Not enough is being done. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...every diplomat's dream come true: the opportunity to negotiate with a famously erratic dictator in command of a repressive nuclear-armed regime that was once a charter member of the Axis of Evil. (See the top 10 embarrassing diplomatic moments...
...power. The army got good marks for the electoral transition and has been praised for suppressing the mutiny. But in everyone's mind is the military's past usurpings of civilian power in Bangladesh's short history. At present, the public mood is one of relief that the army command seems to be playing a subordinate - and constitutional - role to the government. However, the prime minister's challenge now will be to ensure that the anger within the armed forces is kept in check and poses no renewed threat to the authority of her fledgling democratic government...
...crisis. The mutiny began in the early hours of Feb. 25, with sounds of gun-fire heard coming from the BDR headquarters in the heart of the capital Dhaka, where some 4,000 BDR troops were gathered, along with approximately 160 officers (temporarily asigned from the army to command the border security force). The occasion for the convocation was a durbar, or gathering of troops, the previous night. After over 24 hours of intense negotiation and the offer of a general amnesty - followed by a direct appeal by the Prime Minister to the rebels to lay down their arms - troops...