Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldier's complete record on his plastic microchip dog tag, [July 25], I am appalled at what could happen if a G.I. were captured. The enemy would be able to read the information with his own computer, thereby leaving the soldier unprotected and destroying the doctrine of "name, rank and serial number...
...Palestinians' needs come last even with their friends, Syria and the Soviet Union. With Arafat, the Palestinians rank first 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year...
...beauty: the former based on symmetry and minute gradations of fixed etiquette, the latter on irregularity and "natural" grace. Sen No Rikyu (1521-91), greatest of the tea masters, established chanoyu as a kind of psychic enclave in which warlord, samurai, priest and scholar could shed the burdens of rank and power by refreshing themselves at the well of nature. A developed Japanese form of Rousseau's "natural man," living in harmony with a world he has not made, is to be found in the teahouse and the culture it epitomizes: neutral colors, simple gestures, the uncarved block...
Beverly Hills Lawyer Robert Steinberg purported to have three videotape recordings of "sadomasochistic [sexual] acts" involving Morgan and Bloomingdale, as well as a Congressman, two Reagan-appointed officials of less than Cabinet rank, two businessmen and several other women, all unidentified. Steinberg, who has no official role in the Morgan case but who has a reputation as a frustrated self-promoter, said a woman identifying herself as a friend of Morgan's killer had appeared in his office with some 40 minutes of videotape in a Gucci...
...Every Monday at 5:30 p.m., the nine councillors convene and hash out matters ranging from the budget to street names. The members are elected at-large by the Hare proportional system: Cambridge is one of only a handful of American cities to use the scheme by which voters rank their preferences, and once a candidate gets a sufficient number of first place votes, his ballots spill over to the number two ranking candidate (or something like that). Currently, power is balanced, with the CCA and the Independents each holding four seats, and Vellucci, who calls himself a "small...