Trained from birth or on the job, the best hosts of another era commanded their tables as though part of the European Theater of Operations, emplacing and deploying and juxtaposing guests in charged combinations, going to the rescue when conversation flagged and a combatant went down.
But not all the interventions of the Sarkozy era commanded consensus.
As Europe expands in a quest for prosperity and elusive unity, many among its new members in the East fear that hundreds of thousands of people may be left behind in a new underclass, throwbacks to the lost era of command economies and state control.
Prior to the modern era, when command became the main coordination system for socialism, it was typical of such command systems to use this productive power principally to cater to the consumption or to the power and glory of their ruling elites.
When Russell Coutts, the most successful Cup sailor in the modern era, took command of Ellison's team for the next Cup cycle, his first hire was Spithill.
During the Ngô era, Khánh commanded the ARVN II Corps, which had operated in the Central Highlands under Cẩn's supervision.
He is sweeping communist-era placemen from command of banks and utilities.
In fact, many were perplexed by it because it made no sense in the previous era, where we used command lines, not visual icons, to navigate.
The interior region, represented by Jiangyou, benefited from the concentration of the heavy industry in the command economy era, but continued to lose ground in attracting competitive job seekers as marketization progressed.
Her takeaway from the decade, she says as a woman running her own business, as a sexual creature, and as a strong-willed individual is that the era gave females new command over sex and power.
Britain's Tony Blair puts it this way: "The modern Western state was created in the era of mass production and command and control, where governments told you what to do and provided everything.
