Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...subjecting material to his own standards, the employee practiced self-aggrandizement, stepping far outside the realm of his command...
...most recent example, yesterday's mock eviction of house residents by the "Israeli Military Command" staged by the Committee on Palestine, will undoubtedly cause substantial rifts in an (always) already fractured "liberal fascism." There will be those who decry the Israeli Occupation and those who say that now is no time to apologize for terrorism in any form. A broad consensus among various organizations will probably not emerge...
...skies in two or three days. The air offensive would then shift into a phase of low-level bombing (from as little as 200 ft.) in contrast to the high-altitude dogfighting of the first few days. Targets could include some war-related industries in northern Iraq and some command-and-control centers. But the bombing would probably be concentrated on military targets -- tank parks, antiaircraft and artillery concentrations, roads and bridges, fuel and water depots -- in southern Iraq and Kuwait. The aim would be to turn the area between Basra, a major southern command-and-control center...
...drawback of germ warfare is its unpredictability. Saddam might be reluctant to use it on the battlefield because his own soldiers could become infected. He would be more likely to launch germ attacks against specific targets, such as airfields, command centers and ships, or against civilian populations in an attempt to cripple oil production. Even then, the Iraqi leader would need to choose his weapon carefully. Some hardy microbes, such as anthrax and plague, can infect an area for years, which would make it dangerous for Iraq's troops to move into a territory that had been captured with...
...vote of the local stations -- will be in the hands of one executive. The plan, first unveiled last summer, has drawn objections from officials at several large PBS stations. Says William Baker, president of New York's WNET: "The whole world, even the Soviet Union, is going from a command economy to a democratic one, and we're going the opposite...