Word: rank
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...winning a seat in the Diet in 1958 and serving as Finance Minister under two Prime Ministers. Last year he became the party's secretary general. "Takeshita knew everyone's name," says a government official. "Unlike other politicians, he took great personal interest in you, no matter what your rank." His care and diligence paid off. Among the many feuding factions that make up the L.D.P., Takeshita leads the largest -- 114 members of 445 party members in the Diet...
...what to do? It would be unthinkable to abandon October's greatest source of pleasure (I rank leaves and Halloween as close seconds and thirds), but equally impossible to enjoy without rooting. Well, don't rush me; Kirby Puckett proves that a man can have an ordinary looking physique, much like mine, and still play ball with the best--a fine antidote to the hypertrophy required for basketball or football (not to mention sumo wrestling...
...State Appeals Court ruled on September 17 that the City of Cambridge may not promote 20 police officers to the rank of sergeant--because of behavior that a Harvard professor wouldn't think twice about...
...proposed three-year contract contains job-security provisions that will give workers unprecedented protection against layoffs. The pact, which is expected to be handily ratified by the U.A.W. rank and file, also includes improved pension and health benefits, along with a first-year 3% wage hike. (The base pay of the average Ford union worker is now $13.42 an hour.) In the second and third years of the contract, the employees would receive 3% bonus payments...
...Harvard, in its 350-year history has never had a woman teach at the full-professorial rank in American history," said Warren Professor of American History David H. Donald, who introduced her as such at the beginning of the course he co-teaches with Baker, History 1653, "The American Civil War and Reconstruction...