Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, Ford wrung a promise from Democratic leaders to try to persuade rank-and-file congressional Democrats to separate a controversial provision repealing the oil depletion allowance from a $21.3 billion tax-reduction bill intended to stimulate the economy and help bring the recession to an end. Liberal Democrats in the House had insisted on tying the two measures together, even though their leaders had warned that the debate over depletion repeal might delay swift passage...
...malaise: the pay of conscripts was tripled (from 600 a day to a still paltry $1.80), recruits were guaranteed a free monthly trip home, a modernization program for barracks will be stepped up, and the promotion system will be reformed to allow young officers to rise faster in rank. "The decisions taken today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet...
...symbol of arms production in the way that Germany's Krupp or Britain's Vickers once did. Major U.S. weapons makers also, for example, turn out such pacific products as farm machinery and hair dryers. A relatively small number of firms-not necessarily the same ones that rank as the Defense Department's principal suppliers-dominate America's arms sales overseas. Last year the Pentagon listed the U.S.'s top ten armaments exporters...
Schioloshvill, a Metropolitan in rank, explained through an interpreter, that he felt "gay irony" regarding the demonstration, but would not elaborate...
Both Borovoy and Vladimir are from Moscow Vladimir is rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, while Borovoy, whose rank is protopresbyter is rector of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Epihphany