Word: commandeers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been putting out symbolic fires in Nagorno-Karabakh, the mostly Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan and the scene of some of the region's worst ( bloodletting. A year ago, the Kremlin dispatched Kupreyev and four other outsiders to assume administrative control of Nagorno-Karabakh. In November the Supreme Soviet returned command of the enclave to the Azerbaijanis. Two weeks ago, Kupreyev, 52, came home...
...strong uniformed U.S. presence in a country about the size of Oregon with the population density of Connecticut. "We're holding something like 1,100 exercises a year, and these people simply won't put up with it anymore," says a civilian adviser to the U.S. Army command. "I can't say that I blame them. If we had a military presence like this in New Jersey, we wouldn't stand for it either...
...author royalties are 15 percent of the publisher's price to bookstores, or around 12 percent of the price charged individual consumers, according to spokespersons for Addison-Wesley and Harcourt Brace Javonovich, two prominent publishers of academic books. Authors with a proven track record of strong sales, however, can command higher royalties, they added...
...What I really see is a department that acknowledges that minorities and women must be part of the department, but it doesn't perceive that they must be represented throughout the command ranks," Reeves said...
Canadian developer Robert Campeau became the most powerful retailer in the U.S. when he acquired Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores in the 1980s takeover wars. But his domain totters on bankruptcy, and Campeau has been relieved of command. -- Art Buchwald wins a court claim that he provided the idea for the blockbuster Coming to America, but how much will he be paid? -- After an oil spill in New York and New Jersey, Exxon faces more flak...