Word: commandeered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...they say it louder. To an Anglo the Spanish language seems to be everywhere, far more prevalent thatn English. Everyone complains about receiving wrong-number telephone calls from "Latins" (a favorite euphemism for Cubans). In fact, one of the less obnoxious ethnic slurs for a Cuban is "oye," the command form of the Spanish verb to hear and the word with which the Cubans start their phone conversations. When Anglo friends greet each other with "oye" it is a half--but only half--joking way of saying, "My God there are so many fucking Cubans in this city they...
...close ties to the party's moderate wing and because he had served effec -tively as a White House liaison with Congress. Timmons has been running a successful lobbying operation in Washington that, along with work for other major cli ents, helped Chrysler get its loan guarantee. In command of the campaign's 20 regional directors and 50 state chairmen, Timmons will be responsible for allocating money to the states and coordinating grass-roots activities...
...Bertram, director of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies: "In the past the U.S. has been the undisputed leader, but the U.S. that emerged from the 1970s was no longer always willing to provide this leadership, and even when she tried, she was no longer able to command the respect of her allies...
Ever since they shouldered their way to power in the wake of President Park Chung Hee's assassination last October, South Korea's military strongmen have pressed a campaign of "purification" against corruption. Last week the Martial Law Command announced the results of a monthlong investigation that followed the sudden arrest often of the country's most prominent citizens. Nine of the ten, it was charged, had chalked up a total of $142.1 million in ill-gotten wealth through "abuse of power...
...National Institutes of Health: "Recombinant DNA work is going on in numerous labs. This would have gone on whatever the court decided." Chief Justice Burger himself acknowledged that a patent law "will not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides...