Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the apprentice must also finish 600 hours of course work in a vocational school or an in-house training program. As skills improve, earnings pull ahead. In many shops a full-fledged diemaker can make as much as $40,000 yearly, with overtime. Such jobs in the U.S. rank seventh in lifetime earnings, behind insurance and real estate salespeople...
...proportional representation elections like the one that will take place on November 3, a strong slate is helpful to every member because voters rank candidates in order of preference. As candidates are climinated, votes cast for them "transfer" to the candidate ranked next on the ballot...
...problem of former high U.S. officials profiteering in shady deals with unfriendly nations may go beyond the CIA, if Mulcahy is to be believed. He told TIME last week, "I know former U.S. military officers of flag rank who are in illegal arms sales. The problem is so big that people in Washington are afraid to deal with it." -By Ed Magnuson...
Later in the day the U.M.W.'s 39-member bargaining council gave its unanimous approval to the contract, a necessary prerequisite to submitting the deal to the union's rank and file. That step is expected to take place later this week...
...question was a proposed change in the longstanding policy that required the coal companies to make royalty payments into union health and retirement funds when they bought nonunion coal. The union leadership's decision to drop that provision in the first contract had been the basis for the rank and file's rejection of the deal. The B.C.O.A. has now agreed to resume and even Increase the payments. Mineowners also retreated on another point of contention in the March pact: refusing to limit the use of nonunion workers at the mines by company subcontractors. Having reached agreement with...