Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inevitable shift from benign, family-dominated management to the more bloodless, efficient and profit-minded imperatives that other industries adopted decades ago. The pressmen, meanwhile, will continue to resist?and grow old. The News's Frank Boylan endured the rigors of the pressroom for 13 years before making the rank of journeyman. By the time his two sons entered the trade a few years back, there were so many pressmen and so few jobs that it would have taken two decades to make journeyman. "There was very little future for them with all the newspaper closings, so I gave them...
...aware of the distance to the exit from any room you find yourself in, and make sure you can get there on a moment's notice. Don;t eventalk to obvious assholes, they're not worth the effort. Refuse to reveal the essential details beyond name and rank, that is, don't tell anyone where you're from, what your SAT scores were, or what you think you'll major in. Stay in your room a lot. One warning, though: if you really go for this technique, it will color the rest of your Harvard career. If you start...
...soccer would rank as a major sport, but for the overshadowing influence of King Football. Harvard has an especially strong team that would sport an exceptionally strong record each year except for one factor: Ivy League soccer is the toughest around...
...contest in Rome this month is by no means confined to these three Italians and two non-Italians: they are simply the early-form leaders in a very open race. There is, for example, a second rank of Italian papabili, led by the able Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, 57. As Substitute Secretary of State under French Cardinal Jean Villot for a decade, Benelli wielded more power than his boss, acting effectively as the Pope's chief of staff. Paul rewarded him last year with a red hat and the Archdiocese of Florence, but he is still quite...
...Syria?sometimes benevolent, often harsh?represents the will of Assad. When there was widespread criticism of corruption last year, he took a hard look at the influence buying of top government officials by free-spending entrepreneurs and fired his Premier, the Deputy Premier, a score of high-ranking civil servants and about a hundred more of lower rank...