Word: countermanding
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...exposure of a blood bath at Mass Hall is to negotiate a settlement. However, Bok has absolutely nothing with which to negotiate. As the University's chief administrative officer, he is vested with all the powers and privileges appertaining to that office," but is not empowered to countermand the directives of the Governing Boards at whose pleasure he serves...
...competition. The arbiters of its prices are its 36 comparison shoppers. They roam competing stores, spying out new styles, feeling the materials and comparing prices. Whenever they find that Macy's is being undersold, they order the store to lower its prices. Not even Straus can countermand their instructions. Neither can he contradict Macy's own Bureau of Standards, the arbiter of the store's conscience. In a backstairs laboratory that looks like a bathroom choked with chemistry sets, the bureau puts 7,500 products per year (including all of Macy's own brands) through tests...
...South Viet Nam's women's movements, but Mme. Nhu orders around army generals, Cabinet minis ters, and even the President. Though he is often reluctant to go along with her, Diem regularly yields to her when she bursts imperiously into his study, and even allows her to countermand his own orders, because he desperately fears a public display of family friction...
...operations director for Project Mercury and the overall coordinator of Glenn's flight, handled the prelaunch and launch operations and all the other ground support activities, including tracking and recovery. He had the final say on whether and when the flight would be made, with authority to countermand the orders of everyone but the range safety officer, who had absolute power to destroy the missile in the first five minutes of flight if it veered off course irretrievably. A short, crew-cut aeronautical engineer, Williams worked in aeronautical research after graduating from Louisiana State University, later was project engineer...
...talked of learning by doing, the Communist line became virtually learning by anarchy. Says Hechinger: "Schools were run by student-elected committees. Even elementary school pupils had a voice equal to their teachers. Book learning was discredited. Communist youth leaders not only spied on the teachers but could countermand their orders and free pupils from classroom work. Examinations were labeled the marks of bourgeois reaction. Homework was prohibited...