Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government Organization. Reagan is close to deciding on a radical departure: a kind of "executive committee" to help him run the Government. It will number six to eleven people, and be composed of Cabinet members and people of roughly equivalent rank. The council would meet regularly with Reagan to discuss the whole range of Government problems; each member would be responsible for developing policy recommendations for a broad area of the Government and, once Reagan approved them, seeing that they were carried out. Cabinet members on the committee would in effect be responsible not only for their own departments...
...able to make a complicated system work. The more important post will be held by Edwin Meese III, 48, one of Reagan's closest aides since he was recruited by the Governor in 1967 in California. Meese will serve as counsellor to the President and have Cabinet rank. He will coordinate the activities of the Cabinet, the White House domestic policy staff and the National Security Council. He will also be a member...
...prepared for the harsh, realistic world that exists beyond it. In a world where overpopulation breeds starvation and unwanted children are subject to abuse and neglect, I'd say it's about time the church's archaic stance on contraception was rightfully challenged by its own rank and file...
...work they once did in Iran, or who have been the victims of expropriation since the revolution. The latest of these claimants is Xerox, which last week asked a federal court for a lien of $85 million against the frozen assets. Xerox is seeking to receive payment for Rank Xerox Iran, a company that it owns jointly with Britain's Rank Organization. Iran's Bonyad-e Mostasafin, a foundation set up by the Iranian government to seize the Shah's holdings, has now allegedly taken over the company...
...living in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, has already cast an absentee ballot since he is planning a trip to Europe. A liberal Democrat all his life, Blank voted for Anderson. He has only disdain for Carter: "The fact that by comparison Jerry Ford has been elevated to the rank of elder statesman is sufficient reason to vote against Carter." Of Reagan, Blank says: "His economics are incomprehensible. I am a hostage to the future in the person of my grandson, and Reagan's urgings that we be No.l in arms means only an accelerated arms race...