Word: echeloned
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...luckily for us, though cliques do exist on campus, they have successfully avoided becoming categorized by a hierarchical structure that defines who will win a spot in the upper echelon of popularity. Instead, different cliques on campus attract people with varying interests—and you don’t have to choose one stereotype to stick with for the remainder of your four years here (though of course there are some who choose...
...subsidiary of American Express in May 1984 ended the independence of a private investment banking house that lad been in existence since 1850. The final reckoning yielded Lehman's 72 partners sums ranging from nearly $ 1 million for the most junior to $10 million-plus for the top echelon. This gilded dissolution followed months of infighting that had effectively deposed two chief executives of the firm. The first was a former Nixon Cabinet member with a Greek immigrant background but Wasp manners and connections; the other was a company insider who throughout his life, even at this Jewish-founded firm...
...Powell runs into a friend, a film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That afternoon she is lectured by Louis B. Mayer: "My dear child, you are going to be a star . . . I would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower echelon of employees." Harry Cohn, the caliph of Columbia Pictures, learns that Choreographer Jack Cole has pronounced a script for Ann Miller garbage. Cohn agrees, but demands, "What . . . does it matter to her? She's just a dumb broad with large thighs." Introduced to Kim Stanley, who was to be nominated...
...bottom line is also coming under closer scrutiny at ABC's news division. Most of the layoffs so far have been in lower-echelon production jobs. Says Washington Bureau Chief George Watson: "We have not cut into the teeth of the news-gathering and producing-operation." Yet staff morale has plummeted, and some insiders claim that personnel are being spread too thin. "It will reflect in the quality of the show," predicts a staffer at ABC's newsmagazine 20/20, which lost four positions in the cutbacks. "We are already burnt out." Says a New York City-based producer...
...tried to celebrate the last of the upper-echelon hurlers, even as their ranks thinned year by year and the masses around me drank the Kool-Aid and succumbed to the seduction of the home run. But ultimately, it proved fruitless to resist the well-laid plans of the ash-wielding tyrants. Their largest offensive—launched in that fateful summer of ’98—proved too strong for any resistance, and the entire nation became entranced by the hypnotic potion of ball after ball flying out of the shrunken cathedrals. By the time the final...