Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both coach Hubbard and the skiers feel there is lots of room for improvement and hope to rank seventh in Division I by season...
When the United Mine Workers elected Arnold Miller president five years ago, ousting autocratic Boss Tony Boyle, the rank and file thought they had inaugurated an era of reform and tranquillity for their battered union. They could not have been more mistaken. After a brief period of harmony, hostilities resumed. They have not ceased. Now they threaten to topple Miller and ignite a potentially crippling nationwide coal strike next winter...
...been forced out of the fray by his own overheated charges about Communists in the Miller administration. Miller, 53, who has lungs ravaged by black-lung disease and a face scarred from World War II wounds, insists that he delivered on U.M.W. democracy with a new union constitution, rank-and-file veto power over contracts and a fat, three-year 54% wage-and-benefit increase negotiated in the last contract...
...today. The result is that parties are following people, rather than trying to lead them, even the big "Euro-Communist" parties of France and Italy, which seem to be going through an identity crisis. The leaderships try to outdo one another in pledging allegiance to democratic institutions, while many rank-and-file members are casting around for other solutions...
...more statistical reading of the CHUL feelings against housing sophomores in Canaday, just look at the results of the straw votes the committee took on Wednesday. CHUL members were asked to rank their preferences among six alternative housing plans. Fifteen CHUL members listed immediate implementation of the Fox plan as their first choice; 13 said their first choice was implementation of the Fox plan in 1978-79. Only five members listed the North House plan, allowing freshmen to stay at the Quad Houses to retain freshmen, as a first choice, and two members said their preference was a plan...