Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the rank-and-file controllers have started procedures to establish a new union to replace PATCO, which was smashed in the 1981 strike. The Administration's dismissal of 11,500 strikers, although politically popular, is still hotly argued from a safety standpoint. Claims Ray Brown, an ALPA executive and air-safety consultant, about the Administration: "Instead of listening to the message, it killed the messenger. Now the message has resurfaced because the new people are expressing the same problems...
MOST PERPLEXING Not one American had enough Grand Prix points to be among the eight master tennis players invited to the last men's tournament of the season. Only four Yanks rank...
...members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee itched to ask their questions. If anyone should know the dark secrets behind the Iran-contra connection, this was the man. He heads all of the nation's intelligence agencies. He has a special fondness for clandestine operations. He holds Cabinet rank and sits on the National Security Council, and his advice and friendship are deeply valued by the President. The huge oaken doors of the hearing room swung shut...
...years, the first* of four projected volumes in a work titled Modern American Religion. Judging from the first installment, the series will become a standard account of the nation's variegated religious culture during the current century. The four volumes, the fruition of decades of research, may rank as the much honored Marty's most significant contribution to U.S. studies...
...prose and incisive of opinion, Marty, 58, a Lutheran clergyman, is generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...