Word: rank
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NASA said it has nothing to do with the souvenir and declined to comment on whether Project Whitecloud, first launched in 1976, is a continuing operation. As it turns out, the envelope designer was no great intelligence sleuth. Robert Rank of Union City, N.J., a supervisor for the New York City social-services department and freelance souvenir maker, believes he found the model for his envelope sketch and the description of Whitecloud in a 1976 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology...
...inauguration, Ardito Barletta told TIME that he intends to form a government of "national conciliation" including opposition members. He hopes to stimulate economic growth by offering incentives to Panamanian businesses and to foreign investors. The new President also insists that he will punish corrupt public officials, whatever their rank. Says he: "The first year will be difficult because it will require a change in attitudes, a lot of honesty with the people and a good deal of participation by everyone." And, perhaps, considerable luck...
...rank, as he loses his community and family ties, sinking deeper into an almost unbroken isolation, also loses sight of any sort of purpose or joy in living--besides slapping down paint. An acquaintance of his says...
...franks like is for the most part develop of deep personal contuets, occasionally his affectionate nature breaks through and one glimpses what could have been-in the sharing of broad pudding with his father, and the even more lasting and important friendship with "Phil," who ironically who becomes I rank's lawyer and advisor. Even this friendship is corrupted into a business partnership. Much of the story comes through Phil's narration. through Phil the reader receives a more practical perspective of I rank, as well as relief from the explosively detailed prose surrounding I rank's narration...
...however, is allowed no such relief, and this, combined with his driving ambition to succeed and to cross his own nature, forces him farther and farther from civilization and from sanity. As Frank loses touch with reality one is made actuely aware of the danger of aintense ambition I rank can respond to his own torment only by withdrawing from the civilized world. Harland's Half Acre explores this conflict, showing the complexity as well as relevancy of it in today's world...