Word: echeloned
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...students have teas for the faculty. The faculty and administration swap teas. Every dormitory has a weekly tea. Societies bring in new pledges through a system of "open" and "closed" teas. Teas vary in tone from the high-heeled formality of administrative, faculty, and alumnae gatherings to the lower echelon custom of assuming varying degrees of proximity to the floor...
...committee meets every Wednesday at Du Pont's GHQ: the ninth floor of Wilmington's Du Pont Building. It meets all day, lunching with top men from the line departments and lower-echelon people who get to know the top command in this fashion. The top command also learns to know those in the lower echelons. Says Greenewalt: "I started looking for my successor the first year I was in office...
Front-line soldiers have long argued that the Army could stop worrying about its manpower reserves if it just cashed in a few of its rear-echelon goldbricks. Last week Army Secretary Frank Pace, an ex-major in the Air Transport Command, came to the same conclusion. On his orders to squeeze every available combat soldier out of the 1,300,000 men in uniform, the Army told all units to cut their nonfighting personnel by a flat...
Convertibles or Tractors? Not one of the arrested strikers had been found in possession of firearms, not one shot had been fired by the mob. No one had shouted: "Down with Franco!" The strike had been spread by 12,000 enlaces (literally: links), low-echelon labor leaders in the Falange-controlled unions, and the strikers had been drawn from all classes of people: Catholic youth, former Red labor organizers, shopkeepers and shoeshiners. Their common grievance: since 1926, living costs had risen twice as fast as wages...
These measures included a 15 percent rent hike and cutbacks in secretary and lower echelon faculty personnel. Such adjustments in the University's budget will save it $500,000 or $600,000 a year. If a normal (a little over 4300) number of students registers next September, some of the planned personnel reductions will probably have to be abandoned...