Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room, he stays all day, reading those documents that Makarov and others on his personal staff feel it is essential to show him, seeing a carefully screened group of senior ministry officials or top foreign visitors, talking on the special Kremlin telephone system, the Vertushka, to those of his rank outside the ministry...
...order to report to his office inevitably strikes dread in the recipient, even a Deputy Foreign Minister. Impatience rather than vindictiveness is Gromyko's hallmark in dealing with those who rank beneath him. That is typical of top Soviet bureaucrats. They are rude to their underlings to demonstrate their own importance. Gromyko will often call a meeting of his three or four ranking assistants and, if he is in a bad mood, vilify them as "dolts" or "schoolboys" who are "not fit to work in the Foreign Ministry." A report with a few minor errors or a document submitted late...
Last year, a second study found a marked difference in academic performance among the 13 Houses. Lowell residents had the highest mean grade point average, with 63 percent in the top two rank groups, earning a B-plus average or better. Thirty-six percent of Kirkland residents earned the same marks...
...move the university into the front rank, the commission, whose co- chairmen are Ralph Davidson, chairman of the board of Time Inc., and Harold Enarson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, makes 29 recommendations. The key one is "to restructure SUNY as a public benefit corporation." By this concept SUNY would become a semi-independent state body, with funds allocated in block grants, under control of the trustees. New construction would be paid for by additional state revenues. Thus SUNY's administrators would presumably have their hands free and enough money to run the store...
...close to four decades. Son of a Boston railway employee, he attended the city's prestigious Cambridge Latin School and Harvard College. After dropping out of Harvard Law School to join the Marine Corps, he saw action in four South Pacific campaigns in World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He joined Merrill Lynch, then as now the nation's largest brokerage house, as a 27-year-old trainee in 1946; by 35 he had become the youngest partner in the firm's history. The fact that Regan's uncle by marriage happened to be a senior...