Word: echeloning
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Clearly, that idea is a throwback to days when hospitals were smaller, when they not only doled out mercy as health care agents, but also provided maintenance and housekeeping jobs to people who might otherwise be out of work. Today urban hospitals, from the perspective of lower-echelon employees, are so big that they resemble any other business. The worker in a hospital laundry, the man who keeps a floor buffed, the employee who washes pots in the basement--none have a very strong sense that they are part of an organization ultimately devoted to making the sick feel better...
...Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," Wim Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...
Edward M. Korry is one iconoclast whose political criticism of the U.S. government was so damaging that he felt the need to leave the country and settle in Britian. Korry was Nixon's ambassador to Chile during Allende's presidency, and has been one of the few upper echelon figures to tell all he knows of U.S. intervention efforts there. In a television interview last month Korry said he was told by Nixon that the United States would not tolerate a Marxist regime like Allende's in the Western Hemisphere, and that he (Nixon) had ordered the CIA to interfere...
...kind of shakedown cruise-shakier at times, perhaps, than Jimmy Carter might have wished. But it accomplished the general purposes the President-elect had in mind. For the first time, Carter last week assembled his top aides, Cabinet nominees and other upper-echelon appointees, giving them a chance to get to know each other and to begin wrestling with the problems they will inherit...
...charges had been brought against 15 other Japanese, most of them businessmen, including top corporate leaders like Hiyama as well as smaller fry; several of them were allegedly involved in funneling Lockheed cash to government officials. But with Tanaka's arrest, the scandal finally reached the top echelon of Japanese politics, a level of power and privilege that most Japanese had cynically felt was above prosecution. Said Seiichi Yoshikawa, a Tokyo lawyer, in describing the general shock: "People here have been resigned for a long time to the belief that big fish like Tanaka were immune to prosecution...