Word: echelon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dwells whenever possible on failure. He finds in two of his early novels "a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke." He studies himself as a beginning writer and concludes: "I am not sure that I detect much promise in his work." He characterizes his low-echelon work with the British Secret Service during World War II as "futile." Occasionally, he has to confront the specter of one of his triumphs. He does so suspiciously: "The Heart of the Matter was a success in the great vulgar sense of that term. There must have been something corrupt there...
Soviet Union - ending all arms control negotiations, for example - and others who want a more moderate approach. Haig will have to find some way of dampening the dissension if the disputants wind up in second- and third-echelon jobs at State...
Percy was also given unexpected access to other members of the Soviet leadership's highest echelon: four hours with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and three hours with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. The Illinois Senator had scheduled last week's visit as a private trip before the election. But when the Republicans last month got control of the U.S. Senate, it meant Percy would become head of the Foreign Relations Committee-and thus a man Soviet leaders much wanted to meet...
...Harvard had already begun its slide from the top. The Crimson took home its last national championship in the 1920 Rose Bowl with a 7-6 win over Oregon. Georgia didn't really join the upper echelon until 1927, when it beat Yale and got its first Rose Bowl...
Freshman Rippy also gave an inspiring performance in the later stages of the race. After losing contact with the upper echelon in the blistering start, he finished 14th...