Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some managers, obviously those with titles on the door, rate wall-to-wall carpeting, acoustic ceilings with inlaid lighting, and handsome darkwood desks and chairs. There's nothing wrong with a little rank and privilege, and, of course, a job well done entitles the doer to some sort of reward. But as one former worker for HSA said, "Sometimes ` the whole thing smacked of a bunch of little kids playing big business...
...founded in 1893, but after the '20s and '30s, when it helped push police reform, it faded into little more than a great-to-see-you group. Then, six years ago, Quinn Tamm arrived. A careful FBI agent who had made his way up to the rank of assistant director, Tamm found six staffers working out of makeshift Washington offices when he took on the I.A.C.P. job. Now there are 70 on the staff, and the association has its own building. The white-haired, leathery-faced Tamm, 57, has placed particular emphasis on upgrading the training and community...
...ranch is beginning to cash in. Last week, completing the first step of a project that may rank as one of the biggest land developments in the U.S., the Irvine Company opened a $20 million, 75-acre super shopping center called Fashion Island. The center embraces 56 handsome stores strung along a broad, tree-lined pedestrian mall overlooking the Pacific. Aiming at well-heeled shoppers from suburban Newport Beach and Balboa as well as Los Angeles, Fashion Islanders expect to ring up sales of $35 million a year...
...would certainly rank as one of the swiftest launderings on record. The touring Governors spent only 31 days in Viet Nam, were exposed to formal briefings for only a few hours. (Oddly enough, one of the two State Department escorts for the tour was Jonathan Moore, now Romney's foreign policy adviser.) The fact is that Romney had done no homework on Viet Nam be fore his arrival there; he conceded that he had never read a book about the country. If he was really brainwashed, suggested one correspondent who covered the tour, it could have been because...
Under constant taunts from their captors, the artillerymen were forced to crawl, wallow in mud, hang by their legs from a horizontal bar, sit for seemingly endless minutes with their legs wrapped painfully around a pole. The guards badgered them for information beyond the maximum-name, rank and serial number-sanctioned by the Geneva Treaty. A sympathetic "Red Cross" representative tried to wheedle additional intelligence out of them, but most immediately spotted him as a phony...