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.
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.
"The era of Chinese contemporary art commanding such high prices is over".
In the era of radio, no one commanded national attention as strongly as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, starting on the day he took the oath of office.
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.
The growth in the tactical influence of scouting, anti-scouting, command and control, and countermeasures against command and control continued through the era of the aircraft carrier and into the era of the guided missile.
He has given a glimpse of the right strategy by declaring that "we have a chance to move beyond the...command and control era of environmental policy, where all wisdom seemed to emanate out of Washington, DC...we can move beyond that through technology".
In an era of monistic specialization, Robert U. Ayres brings us this integrative command of the variables, evidence, and remedies in one grounded and optimistic volume.
So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal.
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.
The era of reality television was dawning and programme-makers were looking for a presenter who could command attention while coming across just like one of us.
