Word: command
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...interest reports, his failure to flesh out a specific message beyond a comprehensive national health-care plan, and an emerging perception that he is little more than a biography in a suit. And then there is Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose embodiment of Rooseveltian notions of government intervention should command liberal loyalties. Instead Harkin is watching helplessly as crucial elements of what should be his core constituency, the country's leading white-collar union leaders, conclude that he is too strident and too liberal to appeal broadly in a general election. "Harkin sounds wonderful," says Lenore Miller, the head...
...reasons that he would have been valuable to Beijing because, she says, he told her that during the Vietnam War he undertook secret reconnaissance flights over China. Lowerison says when Air Force officials told her and her mother that Scharf's plane had gone down, they added a strange command. "We were told not to talk about him or give out his name to anyone," she recalls, "not even our neighbors...
East and West, economic distress is also spurring the rightist revival. In the East, the breakdown of command economies has led to chaos and suffering that the painful birth of free markets has not yet relieved. Western Europe, though far more prosperous, nonetheless has been experiencing some of its highest unemployment rates since World War II. It has been easy for demagogues to blame immigrants who snatch away the jobs of the native-born -- though that happens far more often in right-wing mythology than in reality. The movement toward west European integration has also provoked a nationalist backlash...
Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher Inc. -- think of the attention a consulting firm with that name would command! MARGARET THATCHER certainly thinks so. The former British Prime Minister wants to team up with the other two ex-leaders in a "supertroika" to dole out advice on global affairs. "We managed to do a lot for world peace and democracy," she explained to the BBC. A senior British Cabinet Minister who views her plan as a slap at the successors to the three leaders calls Thatcher's idea "barmy." In any case, the troika has only one member so far: Gorbachev and Reagan...
...conference, said Yeltsin, "confirmed the right of each state to decide" how to organize its military "in accordance with its own laws." As it turns out, the other eight will operate under a Commonwealth "single command," dominated de facto by Russia. But whether they will be willing or able to pay the staggering costs of modern, multimillion-troop armed forces is a question they have not yet faced...