Eliot Spitzer's latest ploy in his campaign against Merrill Lynch was a threat from the New York state attorney-general to force senior bank employees to testify in court about misleading investment research.
There is plenty of room to debate whether this type of labor amounts to exploitation of, excuse the pun, a captive audience or does it take away jobs from those who are in the general work force.
Not coincidentally, the first commander of the newly-created Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was an Air Force general.
The fourth is a former air-force general, Ahmed Shafiq, who was briefly prime minister as Mr Mubarak fell.
Morsi became president by defeating Ahmed Shafik, a former air force general who served as Mubarak's last prime minister.
Earlier this year, retired Air Force General Scott Gration was said to be favoured for the position of Nasa administrator.
And Air Force General Joseph W Ralston, in charge of the northern zone, said he would prefer to halt flights altogether.
Barak forced Tuesday's special election with a surprise resignation on December 10, pre-empting a fractured Israeli Knesset's attempt to disband and force general elections.
But his ties to the NSA has even his supporters and Republican senators saying they needed to know more before confirming the Air Force general.
As notable is the assent of retired Air Force General Lee Butler, former head of the Strategic Air Command, who underwent a very public post-service revulsion against America's nuclear strategy.
Air Force General Hap Arnold, an aviation pioneer whose vision helped shape the National War College, once argued that the First World War was decided by brawn and the Second by logistics.
Once the withdrawal is over, the secretary-general says the force should be strengthened again with the addition of two mechanised infantry battalions, bringing the total number of peacekeepers to just less than 8, 000.
For the past three years, that post has been held by Air Force Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish.
For the most part they didn't go out and their Force Commander General Martin Luther Agwai was grounded.
Goldwater was a World War II Army Air Corps flyer and a retired U.S. Air Force Reserves general.
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Jumper, a retired general and former Air Force chief of staff.
If all of Mr Cameron's opponents were to unite against him over, say, his finance measures or in a confidence motion, they could force another general election.
He has also held other roles with the cancer society, co-chaired the Surgeon General's Task Force on Cancer Health Disparities and filled a variety of capacities at the National Cancer Institute.
The office of the US Air Force Inspector General, while confirming the overall pattern of complaints, found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and concluded that the mortuary officials named had not personally broken rules or regulations.
General Atomics expects the Air Force to buy as many as 375 Reapers.
"He's the four-star general of the largest police force in the country and here he is, " Mr. Moreno said.
In many cases, we could point to an intellectual and scientific coup de force when the general public is overwhelmed by measurements.
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General John Jumper, Air Force chief of staff, says the military is upgrading al-Udeid for use as a command-and-control center if the Saudis put CAOC off-limits.
Should the federal government, acting on be-half not only of stockholders and creditors but of the general public as well, force its own accounting standards on business?
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Former pupils of the school include the distinguished US Air Force pilot, General Gordon Graham, the American football player Russell Letlow and the television actress Jeanne Cooper.
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The consortium had an application to force an Extraordinary General Meeting turned down on technical reasons but were still believed to be continuing their efforts to push a meeting through.
Unfortunately, chances that such a commander will arise received a blow last week when Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided to force the government to cancel its decision to appoint Maj.
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