Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight companies rank in the top 25 of the FORTUNE 500. In order of size of assets, they are: Exxon, Texaco, Gulf, Mobil, Standard of California, Standard of Indiana, Shell and Atlantic Richfield. Among them, they have assets of $76 billion; their profits last year totaled nearly $4.6 billion. All are vertically integrated, that is, involved in every phase of the industry-exploring for oil, pumping it from wells, shipping it by pipelines, refining it, and selling it at service stations. Together, they control 51% of domestic crude-oil production, 64% of proven domestic reserves, 58% of refinery capacity. Their...
...embraced the three new chiefs of the armed forces, receiving from them a pledge not to interfere with his running of the country in return for his pledge to rule within the constitution. The military even agreed to allow Perón to regain his old rank of lieutenant general. It had been stripped from the ex-dictator in absentia by a military tribunal in 1955 on the charge of "serious shortcomings incompatible with the honor of the army...
...Chinese offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. "If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost," Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said of the crisis, thus arousing anxious critics to denounce him for what they called "brinkmanship." Today, these half-forgotten pinpoints of land rank with the Rock of Gibraltar and the Maginot Line as among the world's most notable military anachronisms. Yet they are still guarded by an intrepid army of some 100,000 Chinese Nationalists, who are sporadically shelled every other day from the Communist mainland. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan visited Quemoy...
...cultural pressures, women do not go on to get high degrees as often as men. Yet the latest and most extensive study of sex discrimination, done by Helen Astin and Alan E. Bayer from the Council on Higher Education, shows that 17 per cent of the difference in rank and salary between men and women could only result from sex discrimination...
...urgent," the women wrote, "that the University clarify its position, good will, and its intent to undertake action to change the traditional pattern in which few women have been placed in tenured or advanced faculty rank...