Word: commandeering
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...general funds, which pay for everything from staff salaries to cutting the grass. To keep high-paying industries from plucking off promising science talent, universities must provide laboratories furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. To achieve prestige, many schools engage in bidding wars for big-name professors who command $100,000 salaries. Faculty salaries rose through the '80s to make up for lagging paychecks a decade earlier; benefits and health care also escalated...
...role of Tamino a lovely voice but little more, and Ling Ning Xu's Sarastro is dignified but unprepossessing. Worst of all, the Queen of the Night (Maria Tegzes), who has a voice that stands up to the test of her role's legendary difficulties, completely fails to command the first majestic and then terrifyingly desperate presence that the music indicates. She slouches across the stage in a posture of submission, and her character doesn't provide the necessary evil counterweight to Sarastro's embodiment of good...
...some actors, the move to Broadway reflects recession cutbacks in Hollywood. Actors who cannot command film work at their asking price often prefer to switch to the stage, which the industry views as a prestigious but separate business, rather than agree to slip back down Hollywood's money ladder. Not that Broadway pay is exactly monastic. While Pacino will work for $1,000 a week in a nonprofit house, some stars command up to 10% of box-office gross, as much as $20,000 a week. For many, the choice is artistic. They want | to play classic roles, work with...
...such weapons by July, but so far, only around half of the roughly 2,500 tactical weapons have been shipped. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin retaliated by creating his own defense ministry, the essential precursor to a separate Russian army. Ukraine then refused to take any part in a unified command structure. A proposal to set up a group of military observers to help resolve ethnic conflicts was rejected by both Ukraine and Azerbaijan...
Menachem Begin came early to his Zionist zeal. He was born in a Polish town where his father was a leader in the Jewish community. After earning a law degree at the University of Warsaw, he became national commander of Betar, a right-wing paramilitary group that advocated the violent ouster of the British from Palestine. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he fled to Lithuania, leaving behind his parents, who died under the Nazis. A year later, he joined the anti-German Free Polish Army and served with a unit that was attached to British forces in Palestine...