Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--As top officials hail the merger of two of Harvard's leading teaching hospitals, the hospitals' rank and file are quietly grumbling that amid the euphoria over cost-efficiency and claims of improved service, they are being overlooked...
...Then you perceive the body of our kingdom/How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,/And with what danger, near the heart of it." The kingdom is sick. Violence, like wildfire, dances across the landscape. People die, choked by ringing hands of greed and indifference. Pain, suffering and death loom. The younger generation threatens to run away, choosing irresponsibility over the conformist greediness of the establishment. The kingdom is indeed sick, and no one seems willing nor able to save it. Sound familiar...
...today; corporate downsizing exacerbates the trend. In bleakly familiar fashion, Philip Morris and NCR said last week they would shed a total of 21,500 jobs in the next few years. Such cutbacks have hollowed out the core of American manufacturing, from which labor has traditionally drawn its rank and file. The number of U.S. autoworkers, for example, has shrunk from nearly 1 million in 1985 to 750,000 today, while steel employment has fallen from...
...Stop signs are fairly common in the job market, though. In large corporations, very few Asians have reached senior-executive rank. The reason, in part at least, seems to be a kind of cultural Great Wall that blinds management to what Asians expect in the workplace. Says J.D. Hokoyama, president of the national nonprofit organization known as LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian-Pacifics): "In America a worker comes into my office and asks for a promotion. Asians don't do that...
...banking were also closed to those of Mediterranean or Slavic descent. A handful of legal and financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...