Word: echeloning
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...then, Deng has chosen to operate largely behind the scenes, stressing that the reform program is not his work but that of the party. He has thus allowed his two deputies, General Secretary Hu and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 66, to establish themselves as the leading lights of the "second echelon" that has assumed the full mantle of power. With a little help from Deng, Hu and Zhao have in turn been grooming a "third echelon" of pragmatists, who should see the reforms into the 21st century...
Nearly all the young reformers have the advantage of being sponsored by friends in high places. Yet the protege system has one drawback: none of the third-echelon leaders has been through the byzantine politicking and the festering feuds that have long characterized life at the top of the party. In Chinese politics, as Deng knows all too well, there is no substitute for that experience...
This month's party conference is expected to consolidate that process by strengthening the position of the younger Deng supporters of the "third echelon," including Hu Qili and former Youth Leader Wang Zhaoguo. Overall, these personnel changes have been accomplished with notably less of the factional fighting and intrigue that have attended so many of China's ideological transitions in the recent past...
...Justice Department was rebuked for its civil rights policies in June when the Senate Judiciary Committee blocked the appointment of William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Civil Rights Division, to Associate Attorney General. Five other top-echelon Justice Department appointments requiring Senate confirmation remain unfilled. Says American Enterprise Institute Analyst Bruce Fein of the vacancies: "If there's been a blemish on Meese's stewardship, it is that he has not been able to get his horses in place...
...able to take one rug, no furniture and no books or scores that predated 1946; family heirlooms had to be left behind. Forsaken too was the hard-won respect that the Soviets gave grudgingly to Jewish artists. "Jews are considered a lower echelon," notes Davidovich, a gentle, gracious woman whose expressive face and eyes faithfully mirror her emotions. "I received my title of Deserving Artist five years after friends who had won no competitions. In my career, everything, like playing in the West and teaching, happened with delays...