Word: controller
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...Parwan to the north; Ghorband, 30 miles south of the capital; and the Kunar Valley to the northeast. Nonetheless, the Soviets have not yet pacified the forbidding, mountainous country. Even with an estimated 85,000 troops in Afghanistan, plus 30,000 in reserve near by, they are unable to control the countryside or protect their lines of communication from guerrilla ambushes. Says Naji Bullah, an official of one of the Afghan rebel groups based in Peshawar...
...Russians are in the cities and they have the highways, but elsewhere they have no control...
...powers, and a charter of rights and freedoms, including the preservation of linguistic rights for French-speaking Canadians. The bargaining could be difficult, since Quebeckers are not the only Canadians with grievances. The resource-rich western provinces complain of Ottawa's indifference to their needs and want more control over their oil and minerals. Still, as Chrétien said of last week's referendum: "It is a signal for everyone to sit down at the bargaining table. We can't go on living with this trauma that has been eating away at us for the last...
...addition, the industry is trying to shore up the quality and reputation of its products. Some critics argue that Detroit's myriad models and options have always made quality control more difficult for U.S. manufacturers, while foreign automakers have stuck more closely to their basic products...
Uneasy lies the head of the heir apparent at CBS, however. Paley, 78, suffers from the virus so common among corporate founding fathers: an inability to turn over control of the firms they built to younger managers. Nonetheless, Wyman insisted last week, "I don't have the kind of anxiety that everyone feels I should have...