Shopping has yet to command anywhere near that investment of time.

Birds are to Beijingers what cows are to Hindus - creatures that command near god-like respect.

Stainrook commanded the brigade's skirmish line on May 1 near Hazel Grove, facing southward.

In 1678, he volunteered to command the expedition to Angola to moderate rebellion, near Mombasa, but the age did not allow his desire.

He briefly commanded brigades for three weeks near the end of 1864 and during most of the crucial month of April 1865.

As a lieutenant general, he commanded the 37th Army near Kiev and escaped encirclement.

He commands a top-notch salary: $90,100 a year, near the upper limit of the school board's civil-service pay scale.

Between February and March 1920 he commanded the 6th Reconnaissance Escadre, near Ternopil.

Thick-necked and in his early fifties, he commanded a key radar site near the eastern Ukrainian town of Konotop.

Jovanović commanded his forces in a drive against the Italians near Crmnica, where they defeated one Italian battalion.