Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed by Prime Minister Giovanni Goria's fragile five-party coalition government. But the walkout was also an attempt by the federations to reassert their muscle in the face of a series of wildcat strikes staged this fall by independent labor organizations. The COBAS (for Comitati di Base, or rank-and-file committees) have sprung up to counter the ineffectiveness of organized labor...
...phenomenal success ensured relentless imitation, so that this Christmas the talking-toy market is saturated. Of all the new dolls, only the Cabbage Patch Kids have made it, so far, onto Toy & Hobby World's latest list of the Top 20 toys. The Kids -- both talking and nontalking together -- rank sixth...
Houses pay their dining halls for meals for tutors, who are usually allowed five to 15 meals a week, depending on house and rank. The passes in the new system will keep track of the money dining halls will transfer to each other every time a tutor eats at another house, just as the check sheets keep track of students from other houses...
Twenty-six years later the young candidate again claims to be ready. At 46, Gephardt is a driven politician who has maneuvered from obscurity in Congress to the top rank of the 1988 Democratic pack. Serious and smiling, able and ambitious, he has long had his eye on the prize, rarely missing a chance to advance to the highest office in sight. He is, at his core, the student-body president who turned...
...fell from grace languished in obscure retirement. But last week Boris Yeltsin, who had lost his job as head of the Moscow Communist Party in spectacular fashion only seven days earlier, was appointed first deputy chairman of the State Committee for Construction, a government position that carries ministerial rank. While that represents a demotion, Kremlin watchers could not recall any previous Soviet official's being vilified and sacked from a top job, then re-emerging so quickly in another high post. Yeltsin's firing was also unusual in that it provoked some rare public protest, including a demonstration by supporters...