Word: echeloning
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...scholarship policy is especially awkward for Bush. It leaves the impression that he has been blindsided by a lower-echelon Education official -- ironically, a neo-conservative who happens to be black -- on an issue on which he has taken a firm and progressive personal stand. Since his college days, Bush has unstintingly contributed to the United Negro College Fund...
Though Cheney was advised by the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral William Crowe, to pick an officer from the Pentagon's top echelon to be his successor, Cheney passed over 15 more senior generals. He recommended Powell, the first black and, at 52, the youngest officer ever to serve in the post. Powell may be Cheney's equal as a political insider in Washington; many believe he could become the first African American to be nominated for Vice President by either major party. And while both men have a quick smile and ready wit, they hold the reins...
...league's upper echelon consists of last year's top six teams--Colgate, RPI, Cornell, Clarkson, St. Lawrence and Harvard. Last season, only three points separated the sixth-place Crimson from second-place...
...talking to the upper echelon here. Imean, how many people are going to have aproblem--you drop the old H-bomb and you're in,"said Joshua F. Laff, a visiting undergraduate fromBrandeis University...
...this July. The opposition feels those changes do not go far enough. At a four-day congress in April, the ruling party approved plans for greater freedom for party members and rejected the Leninist principle of democratic centralism. But after intense infighting, the congress re-elected the top party echelon. Last week opposition and security forces almost came to blows as 40,000 protesters descended on the government palace to demand change...