Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fitting enough, perhaps, for a show so smitten with what used to be called society. Nostalgia may waft through these corridors like L'Heure Bleue, but it is based in longing not for a vanished elegance but for trammeled privilege and status cut on the bias. Remembrance of rank past...
Said the arsenal's commander, Lieut. Colonel Richard Smith: "Full-scale purification would rank as one of the biggest cleanup jobs ever...
...breed of bishops also has a strong sense of collegiality and a willingness to follow leadership regardless of rank. Bernardin and Roach, despite their relative youth, probably have more influence among their fellow prelates these days than do the Cardinals as a group Other emerging leaders in the hierarchy include Archbishops James Mickey of Washington, 62; John May of St. Louis, 60; and Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, 55. All these men were advocates of a nuclear freeze even before the Bernardin committee issued the text of the pastoral letter. Krol, the leading figure among the older hierarchs, is staunchly...
...answer is: little if anything. The analysts who evaluate and rank places lean entirely on objective criteria that play a relatively small role among the influences that determine where people make their homes. For one thing, the big majority of the world's people are born into the places that remain their homes for life. In the U.S., almost 64% of the people live today in the states in which they were born. It is safe to assume that few of those made a prenatal choice of birthplace on the basis of economic, political, social and cultural factors such...
...outlawed Solidarity union. The message had been written from Arlamowo, a government-owned hunting lodge about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw, where Walesa has been detained since May. When Urban came to the end of the note, he smiled slightly at the ironic signature of "Corporal," the rank held by the rebellious leader in the army reserves after serving in the military in the early '60s, but most of the correspondents in the room were too startled to laugh. Then came the real shocker: Urban announced that the burly, pipe-smoking electrician, the man who had come to symbolize...