Word: rank
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While he had reached the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army, Switzler said, he never served as a captain and had never been a formal member of the U.S. Army Special Forces as claimed. While he did serve in Korea, Switzler said, he only visited Vietnam instead of serving there as claimed...
...subsequent talks, the delegates mainly discussed economic problems. The nations of the ASEAN alliance together rank as the fifth-largest U.S. trading partner, having increased two-way trade from $967 million in 1967 to $23.5 billion last year. The Administration is delighted that these free-market nations have far outperformed their Marxist neighbors, but is concerned that since 1983 the bottom has fallen out of practically all the region's export commodities, not the least of which is oil. As a group, the ASEAN delegates called for more American investment. In response, the U.S. asked for an easing of trade...
That accusation was the strongest yet in a deepening test of wills between Nicaragua's left-wing government, which besides d'Escoto includes two other Catholic priests of Cabinet rank,* and the country's mainline church, in which 85% of Nicaraguan citizens profess membership. In proclaiming a state of emergency that suspended most civil rights last October, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra cited as its principal cause the security threat posed by the U.S.-supported contra forces poised on Nicaragua's borders. But many Nicaraguans believe that the directive was largely aimed at curbing the power of the church. Obando labeled...
...albums like 1965's Why Is There Air? In the '70s, he turned Fat Albert into a Saturday cartoon series, and his kiddie- conscious commercials for big-time sponsors like Jell-O helped earn him one of the ad world's highest Q (positive-recognition quotient) ratings, a rank he still holds. In his first solo TV series, he played a high school coach; it ended after only two seasons, in 1971, but by the '80s he got the formula perfectly tuned to the popular funnybone. After raising five children of his own, Cosby in his concerts was increasingly inspired...
Crowley's 21 hits and .435 on-base percentage also rank her first in those departments...