Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With their Five-Year Plans and all-embracing command of industry and agriculture, Communist states can point to many significant achievements. Especially dramatic have been the economic gains of the Soviet Union; in six decades a war-shattered society in the earliest stages of industrialization has been transformed into a military superpower that produces more steel, crude oil, manganese and honey than the U.S. Another Marxist-Leninist state, East Germany, now ranks as the world's 17th industrial power (measured by gross national product), while China's Communists seem to have banished the specter of recurring famine...
...miners showed up and asked Mineowner Ed Crooks to stop operations. Instead, he spent $6,000 on guns and ammunition to arm his 24 workers and hired half a dozen guards to keep watch. On the wall in the trailer that serves as the mine's office and command post, he kept four black AR-15 semiautomatic rifles. Don Powers, superintendent at Crooks' mine, calmly patted his own .357 Magnum revolver and asserted his view: "They got the right to strike if they want, but we got just as much right to work." At the nearby...
...work, being drunk on the job or striking a superior. Before a manager can fire a worker who does not do his job effectively, he must supply a written explanation to the individual 30 days ahead of time. The employee may appeal the firing up the chain of command. If the decision is upheld, he can demand a hearing before the Federal Employee Appeals Authority. If the ruling still goes against him, he can then appeal to the federal courts, which have proved increasingly sympathetic to employees' claims of discrimination on grounds of race...
...history; of a heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo. A child of Depression-era Florida and a veteran of the segregated armed forces, James joined in an early black sit-in in 1945, flew 101 combat missions in Korea and 78 more in Viet Nam, rose to be commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before his retirement this month. In answer to questions about his career, James developed a standard response: "I got here because I'm damned good...
Yale, which won its third road game of the season and upped its final win total to 12 for the season (the most for the Elis since Kingman Brewster was attending classes with my father), was in total command for the first 41-and-a-half minutes, anesthetizing the Harvard attack. At one point the Elis...