Word: commandeering
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...presence of these outsiders, officials have warned, would risk security, weaken discipline and jeopardize the chain of command. In 1941 a special committee wrote an impassioned letter to the Secretary of the Navy pleading that he consider "the close and intimate conditions of life aboard ship, the necessity for the highest possible degree of unity and esprit-de-corps, and the requirements of morale," before allowing black seamen to fight alongside white sailors...
...downtown Belgrade, far from the western battles between Serbs and Croatians, two masked assassins leaned out of a car and fired more than 40 bullets. Branislav Matic, second-in-command of the Serbian Guard, a newly formed anticommunist militia, fell dead...
...quality control. "It's probably giving the boys in Detroit a few sleepless nights," said Joseph Phillippi, an automotive-industry analyst at Shearson Lehman Bros. in New York City. "The Big Three say that they have similar technology, but Japan puts it in the showroom." The Japanese now command roughly 25% of the U.S. auto market, a 5% gain in three years...
...economy, Gorbachev's record is, to put it mildly, more ambiguous. He has yet to make the transition in his own mind from communism to capitalism, so he has been part of the problem as his government staggers and lurches from the command system toward the free market...
...More trouble on the Turkey-Iraq border? Call Turgut Ozal. Another glitch in the trade talks? Call Toshiki Kaifu. For the past 2 1/2 years, the White House switchboard has often been more important to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy than the State Department, CIA and Strategic Air Command combined...