Word: countermands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...