Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group blame Harvard for valuing money over principle. Some go so far as to suggest the University could have improved efficiency without contracting to ISS, but did not want to face the responsibility and found it easier to delegate the termination employees. No one, neither University administrators nor union rank and file, denies and Scott's official dual emphasis on efficiency and fairness is skewed toward monetary concerns...
...Viet Nam, where he served as a battalion and brigade commander; as the indispensable aide-de-camp to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger; as White House Chief of Staff during the climax of Watergate; and, after Richard Nixon's presidency fell, as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, with the rank of four-star general. But it was during his tenure as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State that Haig found himself most embattled. From his stormy confirmation hearings it January 1981 until his resignation not quite 18 months later, he was almost constantly fighting, and on two fronts at once...
...sign a nonaggression and good-neighborliness treaty, then smilingly exchanged their gold Parker pens. Declared Botha: "In signing this agreement today, we have opted for the road of peace." He added, "Our task now is to return to work and do all we can to ensure that historians will rank today as a major turning point in the destiny of our subcontinent...
Detroit's factories are getting their workers closer to what they are making. At the plant where Pontiac builds its stylish Fiero, Manager Ernie Schaefer has eliminated one rank of supervisors, forcing responsibility on line workers. The pressure is on, he says, "to do it right the first time." At a Buick plant in Flint, Mich., a worker monitors the reliability of springs on a computer screen, rejecting those that do not measure up. Says Utilityman James Adkins: "I like it. It makes my job easier...
...perfected this technique in the later 1970s when leading a drive against an academic survey conducted by two sociology professors, Seymour M. Lipset and Everett C. Ladd. The study, to rank the nation's leading schools in a variety of disciplines, asked some 9000 professors to complete a questionnaire which Lang condemned as biased and overly subjective. He wrote to the authors, mobilized opposition among colleagues, protested to national education bodies about the study and found himself refereeing mail campaigns on both sides of the issue...