Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...striking controllers, however, contend that the supervisors are generally older men (in their mid-40s vs. mid-30s for rank-and-file controllers) who may have grown rusty at manning the scopes and who may tire once the initial exhilaration of stepping into an emergency situation wears off. Initially they were working 12-hr, daily shifts vs. the controllers' usual 40-hr, week. At week's end, Helms ordered that no control tower employee should work more than 48 hours a week...
...traffic continued to grow, so did the controllers' concerns about stress and safety, and so did PATCO. By the mid'70s, the union had nearly 15,000 members?all but 2,000 of the entire staff of qualified FAA controllers. The union grew increasingly militant as rank-and-file members felt that each new contract failed to meet their same old demands for more reliable equipment, less grueling shift schedules and more...
...jaunts "just to be able to say we've played the Square--it's quite a big deal," says Van Alstyne. Magician Peter Sosna, who insists he's the only guy in town who can perform Houdini's identity-switching act on the street, points out that some people rank New York's Washington Square Park ahead of Cambridge. "No way. They don't know what they're talking about, and you can tell because they all want to come here," he explains with a wink...
...least bit excessive to rank the quality ice cream explosion with the sexual revolution, the women's movement and peace for our time. Great ice cream is sacred and brave, an eternal verity. And the passionate appetite for quality ice cream gives me hope for the survival of our civilization...
...Pershings and cruise missiles would be sited mainly in Germany. Thousands of short-range or "tactical" nuclear warheads have been harbored in Germany for years without stirring up great public concern. But the TNF has now ignited the opposition of the left-wing rank and file of the governing Social Democratic Party, important elements of church opinion, both Catholic and Evangelical, and various youth and environmental groups, fresh from campaigns against nuclear power...