Word: echeloning
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...Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party. Bhutto, the first civilian to lead his country in 13 years, launched his presidency with a move calculated to appease the wounded feelings of his nation: he sacked the entire top echelon of the army, denounced them as "feudal lords," and pledged that he would lead Pakistan to democracy-although not. perhaps, right away...
...appointed to the Politburo by Gomulka, notably Jozef Cyrankiewicz, the President of Poland, who is now expected to lose that post too, and Mieczyslaw Moczar, the hard-lining former secret police chief, who was Gierek's possible rival. Gierek, who has sacked some 10,000 middle and lower echelon bureaucrats, hinted that there might be further firings: "For bad work, and even more so for bad will, we must dismiss people from their positions...
...might appear. In November of 1966, Ronald Reagan had been elected Governor of California on a platform that called for the cessation of the coddling of criminals and a reduction of expenditures. As governor, Reagan slashed the prison system's budget so severely that most of the upper echelon correctional officials resigned. As he did with the state college system when many of its administrators quit in protest over budget cuts, Reagan filled these vacated slots in the Department of Corrections with men who were more willing to accept his dictates and shared his political prejudices...
...year finding out in some depth about the people and the organization." The voice belongs to Author Arthur Hailey, 51, summing up the techniques that have earned him an honest million or more in the past dozen years, since he switched first from a job as a low-echelon executive in Toronto to TV writing, and then to blockbuster fiction...
Next day, speaking to a group of second-echelon Administration officials, Nixon was quick to pay tribute to Connally's forcefulness and expertise. "This kind of program doesn't come off the top of a President's head," he said. "It was developed by a great team quarterbacked by Secretary Connally. I was more like the coach. I learned as much from the quarterback as he learned from me." Two days after the President's television broadcast, vacationing congressional leaders, hastily rounded up and flown to Washington in five planes that had been dispatched by Nixon, filed into the White...