Word: command
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...Monday, December 10, in commemoration of the third anniversary of the intifada, the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Palestine (COP) put up six signs around the Yard saying, "As a center of protest this university has been closed. --Israeli Military Command," and another nine signs at the entrances to various houses saying, "You have 48 hours to evacuate before this house is demolished. --Israeli Military Command...
...this, one need not analyze anything but the words on the posters themselves: "As a center of protest, this University has been closed. --Israeli military command...
Tower: "Northwest one-four-eight-two, if you're on 21 Center, exit that runway immediately, sir." Then came a shouted command from the tower: "Get off there!" Lovelace, busy at the controls, said later he did not hear his copilot tell the tower they were on the runway, or he would have "gone for the weeds," meaning roll off the runway and onto the grass...
Embarrassing the boss is never a good move. In September, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney fired General Michael Dugan as Air Force Chief of Staff for disclosing sensitive Air Force war plans for the Persian Gulf. Last week Vice Admiral Richard C. Gentz, head of the Naval Air Systems Command, became another casualty. He was sacked because he was in charge of an oversight system that failed to alert the Pentagon to problems in the Navy's A-12 attack-bomber program. That led Cheney to assure Congress in April that the plane was on schedule and on budget. In fact...
...Town territory as he examines the progression of time through a series of New England Christmas dinners with the Bayard family. While the moral (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is conventional, a number of strong performances and stark though effective staging immediatly command our attention...