Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does it rank compared of the previous 199? "I enjoyed this one like I enjoyed the first one...and I enjoyed every on in between," Cleary said...
...smuggling Western consumer goods--their peers are supposed to recall them to righteousness. The party had a series of weapons for these situations, ranging from a slap on the wrist, vygovor (a reprimand), to expulsion. But the party prefers to redeem rather than punish. The higher a transgressor's rank, moreover, the greater the tendency to cover up his misdeeds...
World automakers do not rank among big league players until they sell their cars in the U.S., the world's richest auto showroom. Last week South Korea announced its bid for a place in that market. Executives of Hyundai Motor America, a subsidiary of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerate (est. 1984 sales: $10.3 billion), said that they will begin selling cars in the U.S. this fall...
...list of the most important posts in the party, government administration and other institutions. These positions are filled by direct party appointment or with party approval. Nomenklatura is a caste system that applies only to the elite class. Its many levels enjoy varying degrees of privilege according to rank. For Politburo members there is no limit or restriction on privileges. Below this level the grading structure begins. The Central Committee defines the place of anyone eligible for inclusion in the various categories: high party apparatchiki, Cabinet ministers, diplomats or individuals with unusual abilities or exceptional talents such as artists, scientists...
...Abraham Lincoln labored to get Democrats in his power circle to conduct the Civil War. Harry Truman brought notable Republicans into his Government because they were the best candidates for the jobs and he understood he had to be President of all America. A curse of these times is rank, vengeful partisanship, practiced too often by the President and returned in kind by Democrat Thomas O'Neill, Speaker of the House. "I never conceived of the other party as being the enemy," Kirkpatrick said last week. Referring to the late Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, she went...