Word: echeloning
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...moderation is illustrated by Musharraf's struggle to reform Pakistan's powerful internal-security apparatus, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), once the Taliban's No. 1 ally. These days, says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, the ISI's top brass carries out Musharraf's bidding, but some of the lower-echelon officers seem to retain ties--ideological and financial--with their former Taliban proteges. Says this diplomat: "At some level, these guys see the Taliban as an insurance policy for what happens next in Afghanistan...
...team that has reasserted its place in college hockey’s upper echelon, it’s fair to judge Harvard by its performance against the nation’s elite. So until those near misses turn into big wins, the Crimson will have difficulty claiming supremacy, within the ECAC or in Boston’s hallowed hockey circles...
...said defenseman Kenny Smith, who was named next season’s captain at the banquet after a vote of the team’s 20 returning letterwinners. “When Coach was recruiting us, he was setting the base for this program to be in the upper echelon of college hockey...
...She’s in that upper echelon of a handful of kids that are some of the best I’ve coached,” Allard says. “What is unique about Tiffany is that though she is one of the best hitters I’ve coached, the reigning sentiment about her though is that she is the most multi-faceted athlete I’ve ever coached. I’ve never had a person that could step on the mound and pitch, be quick enough to play the outfield, have enough leadership...
None of the four men--Bush, Powell, Cheney and Schwarzkopf--most closely identified with the decision to cease hostilities at midnight, Feb. 27, has ever publicly disowned it. Indeed, of the broader top echelon of decision makers at the end of Gulf War I, only one has cast doubt on how it was concluded--and at the time, nobody asked his opinion. But his misgivings about the cease-fire 12 years ago have arguably had more of an effect on global politics than the certainties of those who are sure they were right. That man was Paul Wolfowitz, then Under...