Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dozier's release, investigators speculated that the general had already been sentenced to death. There was no indication that any sensitive NATO information had been forced from the general. Said a U.S. official who knows Dozier: "What we're in is a prisoner-of-war situation. Name, rank and serial number-that's all they're going to get. Dozier's not going to make it easy for them...
...insisting upon numbered seats, cracking jokes about life in Ithaca or working out grading formulas. Nabokov's usual procedure is to introduce each novelist with a few choice and highly opinionated general comments, and then turn to the text and tackle it almost word by word. Not afraid to rank his favorites, 1-2-3, he is equally unafraid to slander his least favorites...
...mentioned in their book, spent four years on research. The result: a 386-page study that rates 277 U.S. metropolitan areas on the basis of such factors as climate, housing, crime, transportation, education, recreation, the arts, taxes and jobs. Boyer, a former editor, and Savageau, an executive headhunter, rank each area only on statistics. Such nonmeasurable considerations as a city's charm or the quality of its restaurants are not weighed...
...Pennsylvania city's fourth-rank status rests largely on its low crime rate, reasonable housing costs, equable climate and access to recreational facilities and the arts. Cleveland ranks 14th because of its opportunities for leisure, arts and health care; it ties with San Francisco-Oakland, which suffers from a very high crime rate and dizzying housing costs...
Autocracy, bureaucracy, terror Autocracy, bureaucracy, terror and militarism all reached their culminations under Joseph Stalin. He converted the party into a reflection of his personal will, made the secret police a state within the state, and during World War II became the first political leader to award himself the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Carrying the logic of Marxist-Leninist vigilance and militancy to grotesque extremes, Stalin presided over the extermination of at least 20 million "class enemies," "enemies of the state," "enemies of the people" and "traitors...