Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second battery of testsone set for third, sixth and eight-graders and another for high schoolers-and comparing them to the first. And thus far, reactions among school officials indicate that Cantabridgian children will circumvent the basic competency program's main flaw-that the tests can be used to rank children as to intelligence too early and for good...
SUCH EMOTIONAL TREATMENT demonstrates Liang's conviction that political movements must be founded on personal motives. In a simple, direct style he describes the special motives of members of each mass movement he witnessed--motives which vary from true love of Mao to a yearning for rank and privilege--and shows how the totalitarian system manipulates these individual motives to assure that the mass remains loyal, Criticism of Mao appears as virtual sacrilege in this society, and no one dares voice it directly, Instead, politics becomes a competition to prove who is the most zealous supporter...
Goldsmith stresses the need for an official with the title of president to deal with museum contributiors and local officials. "You need someone with a rank and stature appropriate for the large scale fundraising activities," he says...
...critical moment in Poland's 16 troubled months of reform. Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, long a symbol of opposition to the Communist regime, lay dying. Solidarity leaders had begun to feel the pull of more militant supporters, especially after a March 1981 clash with police in Bydgoszcz. Even rank-and-file Communists had started to call for democratic changes in the party organization. By striking down Solidarity's pastor and main international patron, the Kremlin could, in one blow, have demoralized Polish society and shifted the shaky balance into the government's favor. Explains a Vatican official...
...always be made up for by vigorous, enlightened leadership--a role that Bluestone and Harrison want to assign to the unions. But most union leaders are running scared themselves, trying to sell their shrinking memberships on wage concessions in order to protect vanishing jobs. Indeed, after the United Steelworkers' rank and file did raise its voice, rejecting a proposed give back contract, union leaders cut back the role of rank-and-file representatives in collective bargaining...