Word: echeloned
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...drive to Beirut is normally a pleasant three-hour trip, but there was a lonely feeling the morning I left Damascus, cabled Brelis. Once beyond the city limits, I began running into military convoys, also headed for Beirut. First glance suggested rear-echelon troops; then several big trucks appeared hauling empty trailers-the type that haul out crippled tanks. I began studying the faces of the mechanics in the back of the trucks. There was no singing, but some of the solemn young draftees looked as if they were enjoying their work; others seemed locked in thoughts about other places...
...familiar with the things he writes about. He avoids the sedate middle-class life of most of his readers and concentrates on the pinnacles of power and the depths of poverty and degradation, where only a rough correlation with reality is needed. In fact Hailey's portrayal of top-echelon business, his main concern in The Moneychangers, feels a little wrong throughout; the carpets are a little too thick, the talk a little too glib, the board members a little too nakedly opportunistic...
...Havana form part of President Sékou Touré's bodyguard in Guinea. Cuban bureaucrats supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
...permissive corporate attitude toward bribery loosens morals throughout the company; lower-echelon employees cannot be expected to operate ethically while the boss is setting an example of handing out payola. It is no coincidence that several of the companies caught paying off abroad are the same ones that broke the law at home to make political contributions out of corporate funds. The damage that corporate chicanery is doing to U.S. foreign relations, and to the reputation of the nation overseas, is painfully obvious...
Gregory R. Dube '76, the project supervisor, said yesterday that "ignorant, misinformed and negligent comments by members of the upper echelon" which have solidified a built-in bias against "inflexible" systems is the major reason for rejecting the Identimation system...