Word: commandeering
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...overhead, people below looked up and shook their fists. Any attempt to disperse the crowds and end the demonstrations would seem to require massive firepower. The protesters waited, one minute hoping that Deng would come to his senses and call off the troops, the next minute dreading that the command might be issued to clear the streets no matter how much blood would be spilled...
...women who command the respect of men don't raise relevant issues, no one with a similar chance for success will. If change is to be enacted within the system, women leaders, sensitized to certain issues, must take up the causes, not just for themselves but for reforms that can improve the workplace...
Since divestiture is unlikely, smaller carriers fighting to end American's dominance will settle for preventing SABRE from growing larger. They are lining up to ask the Government to stop a plan by American and Delta to merge their reservation systems. Combined, the two would command a 45% share of the market. Foes of the American-Delta deal say it would hurt competition by reducing the number of players. That step, they warn, would further widen the gap between the big eagles and the sitting ducks...
...father he was sometimes cruelly distant. What sustained and transformed his life were his simple, almost innocent, aspirations. His movies at their tasteful, well-crafted best (Dodsworth, The Westerner, The Best Years of Our Lives) had the kind of polished literacy the immigrant lad could not himself command but could command others to produce on his behalf...
...this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses about whose bad idea this adventure was, anyway. Then they screech off into the night, ostensibly with a grade-schooler in command of the steering wheel...