Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warning and condemnation will be sufficient to chasten the offenders and discourage repetition of their act. This will not be enough. What occurred at Sanders Theatre cannot be excused. Those who took part in it must be punished with all the severity which the University has at its command. If everyone who participated cannot be accurately identified then those who organized the disruption should bear the brunt of retribution for the actions which they instigated. Those who are students should be asked to leave the community for the rights of whose members they no longer have any respect...
...casualties are expected to go still higher on the basis of incomplete reports from the U. S. Command. Communications with the base were spotty more than 24 hours after the North Vietnams attack, apparently because of damage to the control bunker...
...economy does not need minor rejiggering or slight changes in emphasis, but a complete overhaul. To be sure, Communism scored great accomplishments in turning backward Russia into a major industrial power in half a century, with a G.N.P. approaching $600 billion. But the development has been uneven. The Soviet command-style economy, with its rigid planning, central controls and bias against experimentation, simply no longer works effectively. Specialization demands decentralization. No single, central planning agency can fine-tune a diversified modern economy. The industrialized world has passed into a new and more mature technological stage in which, as Wayne State...
...April Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va., headquarters of NATO's naval command for the Atlantic, has had 17 queens over the years to smile prettily in tribute to the Alliance. In December, Sir Winston Churchill's beauteous granddaughter, Arabella Churchill, 21, said that she would be delighted to be Azalea Queen No. 18. But last week the festival made public a letter from Arabella saying she had been reading up on NATO and had decided against azaleas. "My Grandfather used the phrase 'The Iron Curtain,' " she wrote. "It seems to be that what is facing...
Fortunately, VLCC skippers are among the world's best-trained ship captains. Despite his seven years' previous experience as a tanker master, Europoort's Huib Jansen was not allowed to take command until he attended a "captain's school" in Grenoble, France, site of the 1968 Winter Olympics. There, in a 40-ft. boat, he was pushed around a man-made lake by a minuscule half-horsepower engine, maneuvering his craft with his eyes at the same level he now gets from the bridge of the Europoort. "It looks rather foolish with...