Word: rank
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...accepted because the appointment makes Strauss, 58, the minister of U.S. trade and the President's chief adviser on international economic affairs, an extraordinarily powerful position that will carry Cabinet rank. The basic job was originally created by Congress in 1962 as part of President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act. Until now, the men who have held the position, including former Secretary of State Christian Herter and Frederick Dent, have kept rather low profiles. By contrast, Strauss can be counted on to use the full power and prerogatives of his rank...
...guest engagements in Europe and America. Tennstedt made his U.S. debut in December 1974, conducting the Boston Symphony in Brahms and Bruckner. The complex, granitic Eighth Symphony of Bruckner was hardly an easy choice for a newcomer, but the performance made it clear that a conductor of the first rank had arrived. The Boston had not sounded so brilliant in years. Subsequent appearances - topped by a prodigious Beethoven Ninth Symphony last summer at Tanglewood -confirmed his reputation...
...white-haired Abel, "and I know his lack of ability, his lack of dedication." McBride repeated his charge that "outsiders and limousine liberals" were his opponent's main backers. Sadlowski, for his part, called Abel, McBride and Meany "well-heeled fat cats" who had lost touch with the rank and file...
Rapid Rise. In 1971 Blumenthal of Bendix decided to set up an "office of the chief executive," consisting of himself and three executive vice presidents. Early the next year, a head-hunter was dispatched to offer Agee one of the second-rank spots. Agee, impressed by Blumenthal's intellect and rapid rise from refugee to corporate leader, accepted. "I brought more business experience to the table than Blumenthal had," Agee says unblinkingly. At Bendix, Agee helped to install what he calls "early-warning systems" in budgetary planning to forestall "unpleasant surprises." He joined Blumenthal in leaning hard on lower...
...hundreds of rejection slips before he finally sold his first piece to This Week, a syndicated Sunday supplement. Before long he was known as "the cook who writes," and by the time he retired from the Coast Guard in 1959 at the age of 37, he had attained the rank of chief journalist. Though he had served for 20 years, he received no pension checks?those went to one of his two former wives...