Word: echeloning
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...lead party in Thailand's ruling coalition could be dissolved by the Constitutional Court because of an electoral-fraud conviction. If that happens, Somchai and other top party executives will be barred from politics, just as Thaksin and his top cohorts were legally excluded from office last year. Lower-echelon Thaksin stalwarts would have to reconstitute themselves as a proxy party. Still, support from rural voters probably would ensure another victory for the pro-Thaksin camp - much to the disgust...
...talented grappler, as he travels to Columbus, Ohio for the 43rd NWCA All-Star Classic. As only the second Harvard grappler to ever compete in the event, Caputo will challenge No. 3 Phil Keddy of Iowa in a one-match brawl, meant to showcase the highest echelon of collegiate wrestling.“It’s one of the biggest honors you can get at this level and it speaks volumes about the wrestler Louis is,” O’Connor says. “It shows that he is absolutely in the hunt...
...found in plants of the mustard family. Sensitivity to PROP is a genetically determined trait. For nontasters like me, a slip of paper soaked in PROP tastes like, well, soggy paper, and for about half the population, it is faintly bitter. The remaining 25% of the population, the upper echelon of tasters, experiences the strip as unmistakably, repulsively bitter. Believe me, I practically chewed on that paper hoping that it would start tasting like something. But was I wrong to wish I could taste more?“Supertasters” are those who experience heightened sensations from food...
...Some Harvard students watching the speech—at least those sitting around me—sneered that Rogoff didn’t realize that for Harvard students accustomed to jobs at the upper echelon of finance, the usual recruiting suspects remain alive, if not quite well. Indeed, of the behemoths that have gone under in the past months, only Lehman Brothers was a major recruiter at Harvard. The most sought-after financial recruiters—namely Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Citigroup—have survived the recent turmoil and have shown their health by buying up the dismembered...
It’s nice to be the defending Ivy League champion, but the Harvard men’s tennis team learned the hard way this weekend that it cannot rest on its laurels if it is to break into the highest echelon of collegiate tennis. Given that the team has had no official practices and that it is still tuning up for important fall tournaments in the coming months, the Crimson faced one of the toughest lineups imaginable at the Napa Valley Collegiate Invitational. In one weekend, Harvard took on as many top 30 teams...