Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limitation on anti-ballistic missiles. ABMs would be used only to protect "national command centers." Thus the Soviets' ABMs would remain around Moscow, and the U.S. Safeguard system, instead of being built at 14 sites throughout the nation, would be erected only in the Washington vicinity...
Even the Strategic Air Command must compete with other SACs, from sprayed acoustical ceiling to the Society of the Catholic Apostolate-not to mention SACC (either Supplemental Air Carrier Conference or Supporting Arms Coordination Center) and SAK (a Finnish trade union confederation called Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskuslitto...
...major events, Wilson takes command on the streets himself. When a few antiwar extremists refused to leave the Justice Department steps last November, he hurled the first canister of tear gas, then led his men in disciplined ranks down Constitution Avenue behind the fleeing protesters. Later, after Wilson used his bullhorn to order an unruly crowd from DuPont Circle, a middle-aged woman who lived near by asked why he did not use more force. Said Wilson: "Madam, before I answer your question, let me ask you one: Are you prepared to be arrested? I just ordered this area cleared...
...asks, the belief in one's ability to do it-plus the ability to do it. The importance of the latter is often overlooked. Asks Barber: If a hypnotist could really induce deafness in a subject, as hypnotists are forever claiming to do, then how could a verbal command ("You can hear now") ever break the "trance...
Though that fact is hardly news, the three authors' detailed, provocative and thoroughly partisan review of the space program should command attention, particularly as the U.S. takes its bearings again in the wake of the near tragedy that befell Apollo 13 and the recent inquiry assigning blame for it to U.S. industry and NASA alike. For its humor and irreverence, Brian O'Leary's tale of what it is like to be an astronaut dropout is also worthy of note...