Word: echelons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service. Included was a controversial request that Congress relinquish its traditional control over Government salary increases and turn it over to the executive branch. Under Johnson's plan, a ten-man commission would review top executive salaries (such as the Cabinet's) every four years and lower-echelon salaries every year. The commission would propose pay changes that would automatically go into effect unless Congress acted to reject them within 60 days...
...latest crisis was a continuation of earlier intrigue. Forced to relinquish the premiership last October, Commander in Chief Khanh had never given up hope of a comeback. One of his problems was how to neutralize an old enemy, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Meanwhile, a group of younger second-echelon officers, inevitably known as the "Young Turks," were also spoiling for influence, and their targets were the five "Dalat generals," so nicknamed because of a period of arrest they had spent during 1964 in the mountain resort of Dalat. Released re cently, the five, according to the Young Turks...
More Power to Them. Though some managers have lost their jobs to computers, higher-echelon men will not be replaced but simply reoriented to accommodate the machine. At companies such as Lockheed and Westinghouse, young executives are trained in computerized management in night school courses that are a cross between the Pentagon's war games and Monopoly; competing teams of executives use the machines as aids in determining the likely effects of changes in prices, inventories, styles or advertising. In a sense, the computer enhances the executive's powers by cutting through all the statistics and presenting several...
This conjured up shades of the hapless former Cabinet Minister, memories of that high-echelon prostitute, Christine Keeler, echoes of the whole scandal that had so sorely embarrassed the Tories a year ago. "Profumo!" Hogg replied angrily. "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the front bench of the Labor Party, you can talk about Profumo. If you can't tell me that, you had better keep your mouth shut...
...final list was not quite complete, but as Article 7 ran out last week, an estimated 3,300 Brazilians had lost their government jobs. Mostly they were professors, middle-echelon executives in government enterprises, local political appointees. The big surprise was how harshly the military dealt with officers who had wavered, however briefly, in the flash revolt; 26 of 82 active generals have been forced into retirement, along with eight of 68 admirals...