Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complicating the task of future negotiations. It also caused fissures within the Indian army, in which the tall and warlike Sikhs have always played a disproportionately large role. According to an official spokesman last week, the interrogation of Sikh prisoners indicated that 17 retired Indian army officers above the rank of colonel had been involved in extremist activities. Of these, two officers had collected large sums of money from people throughout Punjab, even inside the temple, and used the funds to buy arms. One of the fund collectors was said to have escaped to Europe, while the whereabouts...
...fall of his sophomore year, the College tried an experiment--replacing the maids in Dunster House with student porters. It was not a popular change: Dunster residents complained that the service was deteriorating, and the chief of the Harvard employees' union charged that the University was unfairly putting his rank and file out of work. "Cleaning rooms is a woman's job," he argued...
...decision, which also applies to minorities, could affect the procedures not just of legal but also of architectural, engineering, accounting and other professional firms that are organized as partnerships. Carol Dinkins, who was sworn in the day after the ruling as Deputy Attorney General, the highest Justice Department rank ever held by a woman, called the action "gratifying"; the department had in fact supported Hishon before the Supreme Court. But, warns Harriette Dorsen, a partner in a New York City firm: "I'm not sure what practical progress will be made. Partnerships can be awarded in ways so that...
...invasion, despite the posters that exhorted CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES and ended in an execrable pun, BE LIKE DAD. KEEP MUM. An American major general blabbed at a cocktail party, "On my honor, the invasion takes place before June 13." An angry Dwight Eisenhower ordered him reduced in rank to lieutenant colonel and sent back to the U.S. As the invasion was about to begin, Leonard Dawe, a physics teacher who composed crossword puzzles for the London Daily Telegraph, was grilled by Scotland Yard detectives. They could not believe Dawe was unaware that such words as Utah, Omaha, Neptune...
...Metall, the 2.6 million-member union of metalworkers, called 13,000 of its rank and file off the job in the Stuttgart area. The result was a shortage of critical parts in the important West German auto industry. By the end of the week the stoppages engulfed 69,000 more of the country's 680,000 auto workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker...