Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ability to cure its ills. "Despite the lack of vision from Washington, this country has enormous strengths that can get us through a difficult time," he says. "The baby boomers, who grew up with the civil rights and women's movements, Vietnam and the sexual revolution, will have control of the country. How they cope will be the biggest story around...
...automatic weapons at point-blank range, the forces killed as many as 600. Survivors claimed that most of the victims were members of the Gio and Mano tribes. But the rebels are hardly a single unified front. Johnson's leadership is opposed by Charles Taylor, another insurgent, whose troops control parts of Monrovia...
...Saddam returned to Baghdad in 1963 and started organizing a militia for the Baath Party, which finally succeeded in grabbing power permanently in 1968. Under the nominal leadership of General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the man who held the real control was his relative Saddam Hussein. Keeping things in the family, Saddam married another relative, Sajida Talfah, the daughter of the officer who had raised...
...only way to get it was to propose it. I couldn't make that part of the sanction because I can't order him to become a limited partner." Instead the commissioner devised his pick-off play, designed to snare Steinbrenner into voluntarily giving up his majority (55%) control of the Yankees...
...publisher newly appointed to oversee both the news and business operations, a combined position that Roberts vigorously opposed. The biggest challenge facing the new editor, Roberts protege Maxwell E.P. King, 46, will be to maintain his predecessor's standards of excellence in an era of belt tightening and corporate control...