Some technical and engineering contractors are known to command a day rate of up to £4,000, but they are only used sparingly and for specific tasks.
Joining Mr. Culbertson for the expected four-month tour are Vladimir N. Dezhurov, a lieutenant colonel in the Russian air force who commanded a 115-day mission aboard the now-defunct Mir space station, and Mikhail Tyurin, an engineer with the Russian RSC Energia Corporation who is making his first space flight.
"Come!" she commanded a reporter on Friday, as she set out to explore 347 West 36th Street -- a broad 100,000-square-foot structure designed in the 1930s by the architect brothers George and Edward Blum with the humanizing roofline setbacks of the era; with a marble lobby and enormous freight elevators; and with floor plates thick enough to support heavy industrial machines.
By 1981, aged 16, she was commanding a $10,000 day rate as a model and soon scoring more box office success with the Franco Zeffirelli romantic drama Endless Love.
In Canada, a social welfare nation that has more tax collectors than soldiers, Stockwell Day has commanded a fiscal revolution in his province in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.
WASHINGTON — In a badly fractured 5-to-4 decision in which no rationale commanded a majority, the Supreme Court on Monday seemed to retreat from a groundbreaking decision in 2009 that said crime lab reports may not be used in criminal trials unless the analysts responsible for creating them provide live testimony.
FX made history when it became the first basic cable network to command an entire day at a Television Critics Association tour.
They gave me a chance to look beyond what I had as my vision, which was just becoming a sailor and commanding a ship one day.
Backers of the various alternatives were discussing how to build a proposition that could command a majority on Monday.
— Among the jobs little boys dream of — policeman, fireman, bulldozer driver — airline pilot long held the added virtue of satisfying grown-up dreams: pay that reached $300,000 a year, 20 days a month off work, the prestige of one day commanding a $200 million airplane, and a lush retirement at 60.
