Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice touch is the Satan-worshipping cab driver (Raynor Scheine). He just oozes gross, and his face-slapping foolishness is so funny it could raise the dead. It's pleasantly surprising to hear someone shout, "O! Evil master, I am at your command!" in a Bill Cosby movie...
Administering the kiss of life to many of East Germany's industrial behemoths will be a daunting task. Reviving small business should be easier because the area had a long tradition of smaller, specialized industrial companies before the command economy crushed them. It was only in 1972 that a final wave of nationalization swept the last 12,000 firms into state conglomerates. About half of them have already demanded to be reprivatized. Officials in Bonn and Berlin hope the spark of entrepreneurial talent can be rekindled with loans from European Recovery Program funds. Demand is high. An initial allocation...
...reputation as a somewhat sanctimonious loner, better known for tending to constituent needs than for innovative leadership. Even as a candidate, he skirted specifics, going so far as to proclaim that he did not see the need for new taxes. But budget realities and the assumption of command revealed a very different Jim Florio. "Legislatures react," he says crisply. "Executives initiate." With 67% of New Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained his position again and again. "A lot of politicians...
...people in power have had such a record of personal and professional competence and honor. Poindexter was first in his class at the Naval Academy, excelled at sea command and Pentagon maneuver, and reared five sons (four of whom are pursuing naval careers); his wife became an Episcopal minister four years ago. Poindexter was devoted to trying to thwart terrorists, free American hostages and bring democracy to Nicaragua. Nobody argued with those objectives. "No defect in character," declared a former Cabinet officer who worked with him. "But a defect in judgment. He should not be so punished for that...
...Final Summit. The Wall Street Journal has concluded that such mettings are rapidly becoming obsolete as Gorbachev loses his command of events at home...