Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That crisis could well come when Harold Wilson faces his party's embittered rank and file at next October's party congress. Labor is badly split internally over Wilson's economic measures and high-handed way of running things. Former Foreign Secretary George Brown, who has stubbornly refused to quit his post as the party's deputy leader, is out to cause Wilson trouble; last week the party had to expel Desmond Donnelly, a maverick who leans to the right, for refusing to knuckle under to party discipline. If Wilson fails to revive Britain...
...parity, A.M.C. countered that the average wage at Kelvinator-$2.91 an hour-compares favorably with that earned by other appliance workers. When the impasse persisted, the union merely relayed the company's final offer to the Grand Rapids local without making any recommendation for or against ratification. The rank and file rejected the offer -by the narrow vote of 1,157 to 1,134 -and went out on strike...
...will be carried along to the very top by what began in New Hampshire, telling just what he was going to do when he got there. What was this major criticism of the structure of our government? --Not enough power for the man at the top cabinet rank and not enough independence of these men from congressional control. Perhaps Bundy is right with respect to domestic policy. Bundy's recommendations would amount to giving the Secretary of State even more power than the office now affords, and freeing the Secretary and the President even more from the control of Congress...
However, the military services most certainly do not want all new officers to join with the settled intention of making the military a career. The military rank structure is very much a pyramid. If all those who entered at the bottom were determined to reach the top there would be a real problem because of the services' mandatory attrition policies....Of course the services don't want to be faced with a shortage of officers for the upper ranks, and the present recruiting methods seem to preserve the balance...
Since the official title of the head of the ROTC program is 'Professor of Military Science," it is difficult to see how this devalues the rank of a Professor of Physics any more than the awarding of an M.D. can devalue the worth of a Ph.D. As the two titles are not the same, it is difficult to see how the worth of one can affect the worth of the other...