Word: rank
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...have passed resolutions favoring the moratorium. Still, Schmidt's political advisers are confident that at least 60%, and possibly as many as 80%, of the delegates wih1 reject the idea. Their reasoning is that voting on the local motions usually took place late in the evening, when most rank-and-file party members had gone home to bed and only the left-wing intellectual activists remained behind. But at the congress left-wingers are outnumbered by the more conservative workers who form the party's backbone...
...sort of thing Americans are used to hearing about a country whose Communist Party is the largest in the West and whose intrigue-ridden political system has produced 41 governments since World War II. Too divided to pursue a cohesive foreign policy, Italy has traditionally occupied the second rank in international councils. No longer. While grass-roots pacifism and economic crisis progressively undermine the authority of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Italy is quietly becoming, along with France, one of NATO's most forthright European advocates. Says Pertini: "We maintain that our country...
...contract containing wage and other concessions calculated to save the company $1 billion in labor costs over the 31-month life of the contract. U.A.W. and General Motors bargainers last week sat down to work out a similar deal that both sides hoped to have ratified by the union rank and file next week. On the other hand, economists are by no means sure that labor will continue to be so docile if unemployment stabilizes and workers are no longer fearful about losing their jobs...
...suddenly oil-rich in 1974. Instead of using its wealth to pay for a program of slow and steady economic development, the country plunged headlong into accelerated industrialization. For a while, the campaign produced impressive results, creating nearly 1 million new jobs per year and propelling Mexico to the rank of the world's fourth largest oil producer, with an output of 2.7 million...
...Selective Guide," released in January, utilized a star system, similar to restaurant reviews, to rank 265 colleges in categories such as academics, social life, and overall quality of life...