Word: rank
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...climb through the Communist Party was no less rapid. Elevated to the Central Committee in 1964, he became an alternate member of the Politburo in 1970, a full member the next year. With party rank came political office. Appointed Deputy Minister of National Defense in 1962, he was promoted to Minister in 1968 and has held that post ever since...
...solve a quite different manpower problem: the diminishing ability of the armed forces to retain their essential core of middle-level noncommissioned officers, officers and technicians. A pilot, whose six years of training can cost as much as $1 million, earns only $24,000 a year on reaching the rank of captain...
According to a report by an art department appeals board, the tenure review panel failed to follow University tenure procedures that call for all faculty members on the review committee to be senior in rank to the person under consideration. Four members of the review panel were not higher in rank than Reid, the report states, adding that the panel also failed to provide evidence that the department conducted yearly conferences with Reid on his progress toward becoming tenured...
...militants considerable support among the unions, where they have had immeasurable help from the likes of Arthur Scargill, the combative Marxist president of the Yorkshire Miners, and Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the 500,000-member white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. Widespread apathy among the rank and file has also made the militants' job easier. Individual party membership has dropped to about 220,000 from a high of more than 1 million...
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