Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II by what was then called the Red Army as savior of the motherland is still vividly remembered and celebrated. Military themes pervade Soviet literature, cinema and television. Beyond that, the might of the Kremlin's military juggernaut alone gives the Soviet Union legitimate claim to superpower rank. There is much pride but little exaggeration in the statement by Moscow's Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov that "the Soviet military has everything it needs to fulfill worthily its sacred mission ... The Soviet Union has the military capability to complement its foreign policy...
...blacks, Young has openly favored black firms when awarding city contracts. He has insisted that every time a white officer is promoted in the police department, a black one must be elevated too; the 35% of the force that is now black has a high proportion of officers who rank above patrolmen...
...become the favorite of expense account auditors. New York City is only eighth on the list at $708 for a two-day visit, while Chicago ($570) and San Francisco ($567) rank 15th and 16th. The cheapest of the cities surveyed is Lima, Peru ($265). A hotel room costs just $60 a night, four theater tickets run to $12 and cigarettes are only 69? a pack. The low cost might just attract more businessmen into the llama import trade...
...until late in the 19th century that the notion of setting a record even occurred in sports literature. Only in the 20th has record-consciousness grown into a worldwide obsession. Scholars say that record keeping took hold mainly because of the scientific revolution's tendency to quantify and rank everything. The preoccupation with records, and the breaking thereof, pervaded sports early in this century and spread, much too quickly, to virtually every other field of endeavor. A North Carolina youth, Lang Martin, holds the record for balancing golf balls vertically: he stacked up six of them. A Northeast Louisiana...
Nunn: I agree. Pay where you need to pay, not across the board. But then you run into the historic issue of military equity in which soldiers of similar rank traditionally get just about similar...