Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes in the economic climate, several companies have voluntarily divested themselves of military research and production. The Acurex Corporation of Santa Clara, California, worked entirely on military projects in the 1960's, but now does 84 per cent of its work in solar energy and heating technology. The rank and file workers of Lucas Aerospace, formerly a major British military contractor, drew up and carried out the most comprehensive conversion plan in existence--complete with new products and marketing strategies designed to maintain both the number of jobs and level of profits of the corporation...
...speeches conveyed a common theme: the channels of party control should flow up from the rank and file instead of down from the leadership. It was a heretical challenge to the Leninist principle of "democratic centralism." The delegates put their ideas into concrete form in a near unanimous resolution calling for among other things, leadership changes and the direct election of delegates to July's party congress...
...three crucial supporting roles, only Christopher Randolph as Dr. Rank manages a solid, thoughtful performance. Jonathan Spalter makes Barnstrom--again, an unnecessary Americanization from Krogstad--a hilarious cardboard villain, right out of The Perils of Pauline. He clenches his teeth, he points accusingly, he leans over chairs menacingly, he rubs his palms in sadistic glee. If he had a moustache, he'd sure to twirl it with fiendish rigor. As Kristine, his long lost love, Kim Bendheim seems vaguely robotized. Their climactic scene together is a wet firecracker...
...Communists achieved in 1978. If Marchais's showing proved to be that poor, the chances are that his leadership of the party would be challenged soon after the election. As it is, Marchais's support inside the party is hardly unanimous. Members of the rank and file are unhappy with his strict, sometimes overbearing control of party machinery. Many intellectuals have bolted over his obdurate refusal to allow internal debate or criticize the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...past. (Chauvin, after all, was a Frenchman.) Par exemple, the book points out, "the notion that the Americans could produce anything good to eat or drink used to make us giggle." Faux. Actually, there are several restaurants in New York (run mostly by Frenchmen) that would rank with some of the best in Paris. American restaurants, the book says, "are infinitely more elaborate, elegant and artful than ours." Also, in New York at least, there have never been so many good ones. There are in that city many young chefs who are versed in la nouvelle cuisine...