Word: rank
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...Republics and General Secretary of the Communist Party. In the twilight of a political career that virtually spanned the history of the Soviet Union, he accumulated extraordinary honors. Although his contributions to the Red Army's wartime efforts were largely limited to political propagandizing, he gained the exalted rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. He was the only Russian in history to have been decorated with five gold stars as a Hero of the Soviet Union and of Socialist Labor, his country's equivalent of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
Last weekend, the rival Boston Globe reported that Murdoch wants to make substantial personnel cuts in the tabloid's mechanical departments and eliminate job protection for senior editorial workers. The Globe said Murdoch had given editorial union leaders until Nov. 30 to obtain agreement from rank and file members...
...rank and file were told to accept an unacceptable contract," Burke said...
...work more closely with the rank and file was inspired in part by an employee meeting last Tuesday at which Phillip Voight. Yale University's chief steward, out lined the negotiating strategy that he said helped Yale food service workers win numerous wage and benefit concessions...
Marie Kenney, Local 26's business agent and a former waitress at the Faculty Club, said that in addition to strategic reasons, there were moral grounds for keeping the rank and file informed of the progress of the contract negotiation...