Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grumbling had started on the eve of the conclave, when Walesa and three other members of the union's eleven-man presidium accepted a compromise plan for worker self-management without consulting the rank-and-file. The new plan, which would give workers a limited voice in choosing their own plant managers, fell short of initial sweeping demands for worker autonomy. Many of the delegates returned to Gdansk spoiling for a fight with their own leaders...
...closing one street to automobiles only increases traffic in others. When main arteries are clogged, impatient commuters short-cut through residential streets-as the people on Boston's Appleton Street discovered, to their dismay. Incessant traffic noise, pollution and lack of parking rank high among the reasons why people move out of the cities...
...demands, the authorities, urged on by the Kremlin, might have little choice but to move against them. But the bitter verbal attacks from Moscow and Warsaw made it difficult for union leaders to back down without losing face-and possibly weakening their control over Solidarity's 9.5 million rank-and-file members. Said Solidarity Spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz: "There is enough fuel now to start up everybody...
...recent Op-Ed page article in the New York Times, he said the rank-and-file are "becoming more radical than their national or regional leaders, more radical even than the former dissidents now active in the union...
Wiley--a tall, lithe blond, and an "extremely disciplined and dedicated runner, according to Babington--is expected to challenge Beckford for supremacy in the longer contests this season. While the Yardling excels in the endurance races, Beckford thrives on half-miles and mile distances, yet is versatile enough to rank among the elite cross-country runners...