• While chronicling one of America's fastest-growing industries with admirable diligence, and all the authority at the command of the Journal's careful prose, Mr O'Brien gradually abandons his objectivity to make it clear that he does not much approve of all this, for all the gaming industry's vast contributions to state and local tax coffers.

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  • But you have to understand that there's a lot of disagreement at the senior military command level about the wisdom of a surge, if you will, or an increase.

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  • In Kosovo, the tribunal's prosecutors are determined to nail those at the top of the chain of command, then work down to the smaller fry.

    ECONOMIST: Nailing the war-criminals

  • On the second question, it is going to be -- the French and others agreed at NATO to have NATO take on the command and control of this operation at some point during, as I said, not days -- not weeks, but days.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • One by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the other by an Army two star general, who's looking at the reporting part of this and the command structure.

    NPR: Pentagon Probes Marine Killings in Iraq

  • Hazel Gregory was 18 in 1940 and working as a plotter at the Headquarters of Fighter Command in Uxbridge.

    BBC: Remembering the Battle of Britain

  • Miss Ashton has written to the Treasury, asking it to "help preserve the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by funding, directly or indirectly, a museum at the former site of RAF Command at Bentley Priory".

    BBC: Bid to save World War II museum

  • No doubt though that the reconfiguration of British troops in Helmand will command the attention of the House at some point - particularly given the heavy casualties 40 Commando and others have been sustaining.

    BBC: The Full Story: PM's Questions

  • The captain of the submarine at the time - Cdr Andy Coles - was relieved of his command shortly after the incident.

    BBC: 'No dedicated plan' led to HMS Astute grounding

  • Though everyone is entitled to their own opinion, military officers should know that theirs are best kept private... particularly if they are at odds with the chain of command.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: McChrystal remarks sad but not surprising

  • Memish said the CDC recommended setting up a mobile alert system used in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the U.S. where mobile devices will document any suspected flu cases via GPS to a command center at the Ministry of Health.

    CNN: The Hajj: A perfect storm for swine flu?

  • No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.

    FORBES: White House Denies Petition Request To Build A Death Star

  • The thrust of the reforms was to concentrate strategic leadership at the top of the department and establish a new Joint Forces Command to integrate capabilities such as military intelligence across all three services.

    ECONOMIST: The future of the British army

  • Although the government's spending plans received a fairly critical reception, most of the barbs (for once) were aimed at the chancellor and his typically labyrinthine new command-and-control systems for monitoring the journey of every tax pound.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Allen lacks senior level combat command, he was the White House's top pick for the role, largely because of his experience as the deputy at Central Command.

    WSJ: New Afghan War Leader Helped Nurture Sunni Awakening in Iraq

  • Bradley, who trails Gore in all 15 states that vote in the March 7 Super Tuesday primaries, has the monumental task of derailing the second-in-command to a president with high approval ratings at a time of unprecedented national prosperity.

    CNN: Advantage to Gore in showdown at the Apollo

  • However, they were in the chain of command at the time that Newsnight shelved an earlier investigation into abuse claims against former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile.

    BBC: The BBC's New Broadcasting House

  • They collect vital intelligence for warfighters at every level in the chain of command, sometimes loitering silently above enemy formations far longer than any manned aircraft could.

    FORBES: The Revolution In Unmanned Aircraft Is Overrated

  • Members of the 4th Platoon try to learn a few Kurdish words over lunch at a command outpost by the Tigris River in the western part of Mosul.

    NPR: Iraq, U.S. Force Put Anti-Insurgent Focus on Mosul

  • Access to what has been dubbed coalition village - at the Florida headquarters of the US Central Command, or CentCom - is highly restricted.

    BBC: US military coalition gathers strength

  • However, in recent decades the numbers of women with the weaving and embroidery skills at their command has severely declined to the extent that traditional Li textile techniques are exposed to the risk of extinction and are in urgent need of protection.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • For the first time, on-the-ground soldiers will be able to fire at a hidden opponent without having to go up the chain of command to ask for a precision air strike and waste precious time doing so.

    FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

  • The alleged documents leak, along with the firing of the head of the Vatican Bank, are aimed at weakening the authority of the pope's second-in-command, they say.

    CNN: Vatican: Pope not resigning over alleged papers leak

  • Renewed fighting broke out in eastern Congo at the end of August between rebels under the command of Nkunda and government forces.

    CNN: Congo rebel leader Nkunda arrested

  • The process began in the early 1990s, at the very top of the armed forces, when politicians pushed the military to streamline its command-and-control structure.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • It may be that his very command of the business details at issue suggests that he, as much as anyone, should have been able to control events.

    FORBES: The Rupert and James Show: Today's Performance in Parliament Confirms Need for Independent Board Investigation

  • When not funneling in and out of the command center at West High School, federal, state and local officials spent Tuesday outside using shovels to methodically search for clues.

    CNN: Powerful Texas blast left nearly 100-foot-wide crater

  • In a private prosecution 12 years ago, a jury had been unable to agree whether Ch Supt David Duckenfield, in overall command at the match, should be convicted of manslaughter.

    BBC: Liverpool

  • Less than a year before his assassination, Kennedy challenged the Marine Corps to cover 50 miles on foot in 20 hours, an homage to a command originated by Teddy Roosevelt at the turn of the century.

    WSJ: A 50-Mile Run Debuts for the Mohonk

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