Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community leaders think that extensive press coverage of the Jonestown massacre may have played a role in the deaths. Others see a deeper malaise. They talk of a workaholic climate in Ridgewood's school system, which sends 80% of its graduates on to college, many to first-rank universities. "The pressures are high," says Richard Roukema, chief of psychiatry at Ridgewood's Valley Hospital. "You add to that a high divorce rate and a high number of dead marriages, and you see a lot of youngsters in isolation, not relating to their parents...
...donating huge sums to pro-business politicians. But the legislation encouraged the formation of corporate PACS that can give candidates up to $5,000 apiece per election. The PACs raise most of their money from executives and stockholders. The law also allows them to appeal twice a year to rank-and-file employees for anonymous donations...
That is because the real busi ness of conventions, as any rank-and-file registrant will at test, is not formulating industry-wide policies or discussing pressing issues of the day in open session, but gossiping, making contacts, winning contracts or finding...
...initiative toward tripartism--a system of business-labor-government consultation and decision-making? best illustrates the tendency towards centralized cooperative involvement in state bureaucracy. A national convention of the Congress struck down this initiative, but the incident demonstrates the conservative impact that CLC leaders attempt to exercise over their rank and file...
...centennial, most of the presidents and presidents-elect said it was nice but not very significant, though it did show the decrease in separation between Harvard and Radcliffe. Some said that regardless of the numbers of high positions women hold, there are still too few women in the rank and file of Harvard organizations...