Word: ranked
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...admiral occasionally pulls rank and echoes broadsides from his memoir. He rehashes service politics, finds the racial attitudes of the previous Chief of Naval Operations contemptible, and the Viet Nam War "worse than futile": "The Navy men killed in the river war meant a proportionately greater saving of lives for the Army and the accelerated pacification of the delta. But all that was accomplished for nothing, so all these soldiers and sailors died in vain." Bitter truth does not come easily to him; the Naval Academy did not teach no-win decision making...
...force out management and put in place his own deputies after the takeover. But once his chosen managers are at the helm, Tisch is not afraid to let them do their jobs. "Everybody has a certain pride in their work," he says. "I'm not one to try to rank qualities of people. If it comes across to me that a person is doing the best work he can, with good moral standards and good business standards . . . that's what I look...
...admired newspaper correspondent of World War II, spent most of his time with the infantry, often in the front lines and under fire. He wrote down the names and hometowns of G.I.s he found eating cold C rations in muddy foxholes, and his stories rarely mentioned anyone above the rank of captain. It was, as he said, a "worm's-eye view" of the war, and in this deftly edited collection of his dispatches, Pyle's view of what is now an ancient campaign returns as a haunting narrative. A column written from Tunisia in 1943 was titled...
Despite such tributes and honors, however, the persistent question plaguing many minds on the eve of celebration is whether Harvard may be flaunting yesterday's gardenias and still merits the rank of premier U.S. university. The question arises in part because of Harvard's eminence. "Harvard does tend to live in the spotlight," observes Berkeley Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman. By the same token, Harvard may be more closely scrutinized because the challenges confronting it are those confronting most major universities; how Harvard copes may point to the future direction of much of higher education. Says Christopher Fordham, chancellor...
...China, during the Ch'ing dynasty, the Emperors' Pekingese were suckled by wet nurses, raised by eunuchs and given royal rank. Tsunayoshi, the "Dog Shogun" of 17th century Japan, distorted his nation's economy to pamper his 100,000 canines. Ovid and Catullus wrote poems to commemorate the deaths of their mistresses' birds, and trendy Romans kept pet turbot. Today a dog's vita can be just as dolce. Three years ago, Lady Beaverbrook booked all the seats in the business section of a jumbo jet so that she and her pooch could travel in solitary comfort...