Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage and polygamy. A marriage law passed in October makes it harder for a man to take a second wife or to dismiss a spouse with the curt command: "I divorce you." In 1975 Thai women won the right to run for election as village chief or attain the rank of general in the army. But they still cannot sign a contract or apply for a passport without their husband's permission...
...more than 6,000 combat troops that Cuba has provided at the Russians' bidding are led by no fewer than seven officers with the rank of brigade commander (roughly equivalent to brigadier general). They are believed to include Senen Casas Reguiero, who was first deputy minister of the Cuban armed forces and chief of the general staff, and his brother Julio, a top logistics expert...
...value of the new find is at least $500 million per trillion cu. ft. in Alaska, and perhaps three times that much delivered to the consumer. Thus money can be raised to transport North Slope gas. Indeed, two competing proposals-each of which would rank as among the very biggest private construction projects in history-have already been developed by competing energy companies...
...votes, people and that kind of grubby business. And by intellectual, I mean that habit of thought which tends to view events intelligently and humanely in their long-term social and historical context. It's not a very satisfactory definition and I certainly don't mean to include first-rank intellectuals with a total commitment to the academic or editorial community...
...betrays not the slightest moral or intellectual self-awareness. Born poor but with a modest claim to gentleman's rank, he never doubts his right to rise to the highest ranks of the nobility. Nor does he ever seem to question the various means by which he pursues his end: army desertion, card sharping, contracting a loveless marriage in order to acquire a fortune. As for time, it means nothing to him. He squanders it, as he does money, in pursuit of pleasure and the title he is desperate...