Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker has spent as much time a top the State House ladder as Tom McGee, and McGee's hardnosed ruling style has built up some resentment among the rank-and-file. "People have had small and large grievances with McGee for a while," Michael A. Goldman, political consultant to the Keverian campaign, said yesterday...
...create objects of massive size or religious significance. They could show a unique touch with such humble household necessities as the fishhook. The curve of the shank was obtained by training a branch of a living tree. When the hook was to be used by a man of high rank, it was topped with a dainty head. The deadliest of the Maori weapons, the sharp-sided club used in hand-to-hand fighting, is of similarly graceful design. Both categories of artwork bear an eerie resemblance to the 3000 B.C. figurines from the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean...
...union pushed for an improvement of both offers, and by late in the week the differences between the two sides were narrowing. Once an agreement is reached, however, it still must be put to a vote of union members. U.A.W. leaders bargained hard last week, while remembering that restless rank-and-file workers had accepted the last contract in 1982 by only a close 52%-to-48% vote...
...policies), American workers appear sufficiently concerned with job security so as to be more conciliatory than their British counterparts. Furthermore, American unions are beginning to recognize their erosion of their political clout. In addition to dwindling membership, union leaders can no longer be certain that they can deliver the rank and file vote...
Back at home, Conrad is once again engulfed in vegetation grown rank with lack of care. "With my hands," he recalls, "I made a breach in the thick curtain of asparagus ferns that tumbled down from the top of the wardrobe and floated like puffs of smoke between the floor and the ceiling." There, amid the old green plants that recall a painting by Henri Rousseau, he reflects upon the failures of religion and revolt. Fortunately for the writer of these bitter meditations, his current fiction has proved more promising than his past careers...