Word: commandant
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Sculley now seems in clear command. After heated discussions with Jobs, Sculley persuaded the board to relegate Apple's co-founder to the murky role of "global visionary," as one analyst put it. Jobs lost his day-to-day duties, a change that some say came none too soon. "Jobs is too much out in the ozone," says Joseph Levy, an analyst for International Data...
...book she seems the same at first, a wan little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy...
...Center in Fort Meade, Md., concluded that only 30 out of about 17,000 DOD computers are even minimally secure against intrusion by clever hackers. Though no one has ever been caught doing it, the mere thought of Soviet intelligence plugging into Defense Department computers, particularly the ones that command the American nuclear arsenal, is the stuff of Hollywood chillers...
...mustachioed Cuban in a white straw hat, Brito is the Dodger scout who discovered 17-year-old Valenzuela seven springs ago in Mexico. He went there to observe a skinny infielder, but could not help noticing an ample lefthanded breaking-ball pitcher with more than a teenager's command. "Both these guys / seem to have been born with poise and control," he says. In addition, Gooden has a 94-m.p.h. fast ball in the eighth inning...
...days that followed, the country struggled to resuscitate itself. Ershad established a special relief coordinating committee headed by his second-in-command, Rear Admiral Sultan Ahmed, and ordered Bangladesh's 150,000-man armed forces put on a "wartime footing" to help cope with the disaster. Some 20,000 military personnel and 50,000 civilians were enlisted for relief operations. The President also appealed to other nations for $50 million in emergency aid; he specifically requested cash rather than supplies, so that the stricken could be given immediate relief. "So many of the survivors have lost everything," he said...